"Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it……" — Oliver Sacks
"Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well"
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78 Quotes by Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks has 78 quotes on this site.
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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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More Dangerously Quotes
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There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play…
— Dave Brubeck
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I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short…
— Jane Campion
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That's why I called it Dangerously In Love. It's basically all of the steps in a relationship from when you…
— Beyonce Knowles
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It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from…
— Wilbur Smith
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It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles…
— William J. Clinton
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Live dangerously and you live right.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital…
— Emma Watson
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Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities…
— Howard Zinn
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In a situation like this, of course you identify with everyone who's suffering. (But we must also think about) the…
— Richard Gere
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If you can see them [the terrorists] as a relative who's dangerously sick and we have to give them medicine…
— Richard Gere
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The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying…
— Betty Friedan
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We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting;…
— Nelson Mandela
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