"Astounded—and indifferent—for he was a man who, in……" — Oliver Sacks
"Astounded—and indifferent—for he was a man who, in effect, had no ‘day before’."
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78 Quotes by Oliver Sacks
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We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
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A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism…
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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the…
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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange…
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The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
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It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.
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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked…
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I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because…
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About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual…
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Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you.…
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I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of…
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Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many…
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
— David Attenborough
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I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a…
— David Bowie
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I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
— Woody Allen
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When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned…
— Mark Twain
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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars,…
— Guglielmo Marconi
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After 50 years, is it not clear that God has raised up new illnesses connected with fornication? From where do…
— John Calvin
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Anyone who has examined into the history of the theories of earth evolution must have been astounded to observe the…
— Unknown Author
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Oh, how great is the goodness of God, greater than we can understand. There are moments and there are mysteries…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared…
— Christopher Cokinos
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I'm still astounded by some people's reaction to things I consider quite normal.
— Jean Paul Gaultier
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Furman astounded me with his chess depth, a depth which he revealed easily and naturally, as if all he were…
— Anatoly Karpov
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