"If a man has lost a leg or……" — Oliver Sacks
"If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it."
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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 Cannot Know Quotes
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know…
— Wendell Berry
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We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.
— Claude Shannon
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What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.
— Bertrand Russell
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Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do…
— Marianne Williamson
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Parents of handicapped children are occasionally embarrassed or hurt by others who awkwardly express sympathy but cannot know or appreciate…
— James E. Faust
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Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot…
— Henri Poincare
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We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot…
— Jules Renard
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Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
— Seneca the Younger
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If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are…
— John B. S. Haldane
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I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be…
— Bertrand Russell
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It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The…
— John Steinbeck
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There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ...…
— Roger Bacon
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