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
If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
If a man with a dog sits quietly enjoying music and smiling, his dog might sit down beside him and smile, too.… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
there are other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
It seems that the brain always has to be active, and if the auditory parts of the brain are not getting sufficient… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while theyre going on, you will find that the parts of the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the… — 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
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
“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
