All Oliver Sacks Quotes
- I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. Clear
- I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can Deepest
- Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement Bonding
- I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions. All
- Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain. Adaptability
- If we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm… Beauty
- There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients. Acute
- It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and… Adversity
- First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience. First Thing
- ... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. This unquestionability… All
- For 'wellness', naturally, is no cause for complaint - people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain… Become Suspicious
- Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built… Aberration
- I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable language (and community… Community
- Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives - we are each of us unique. Biologically
- I cannot pretend i am not without fear… Cannot Pretend
- Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love. Analysis
- Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness. Creativity
- I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they… Act
- One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make… All
- Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. Abstract
- Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the… Ape
- Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But… Access
- Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited… All
- Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality Consciousness
- My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me. Arouses