If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Although I think it is wonderful to have the whole world of music available in something that small and to have it… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Creativity...involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us.… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“The feelings are similar, in some ways, to those one has in Rome or Athens, but quite different in other ways, because this culture… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ears. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
“We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognise and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
“But it must be said from the outset that a disease is never a mere loss or excess— that there is always a reaction,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding to different… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
Who cared if there was really any Being to pray to? What mattered was the sense of giving thanks and praise, the feeling of… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
“unconscious motives may sometimes ally themselves to physiological propensities, of how one cannot abstract an ailment or its treatment from the whole pattern, the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
“We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative — whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said that each… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you.… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
The rhythm of music is very, very important for people with Parkinson's. But it's also very important with other sorts of patients, such as… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share
