I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: ‘A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a… — 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
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
For 'wellness', naturally, is no cause for complaint - people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
