Community Quote by Oliver Sacks

“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 and culture) of one’s own. Up to this point, I had mostly thought and written about the problems of individuals–here I was to encounter an entire community.”

Oliver Sacks

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings)

Community Culture Deaf Deprived Encounters Individual Language Mean Might Problem Remarkable Written

More by Oliver Sacks

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image

Explore all 177 Oliver Sacks quotes

More Community quotes

Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each…

Jeremy Limn

Image

But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second…

Vikram Sarabhai

Image

In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you…

Rose Ayling-Ellis

Image

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather…

Herbert Marcuse

Image

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my…

Sharon Horgan

Image

The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,…

Umair Haque