"We have five senses in which we glory……" — Oliver Sacks
"We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded ... unconscious, automatic."
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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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More Automatic Quotes
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Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint…
— William S. Burroughs
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Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give…
— Maxwell Maltz
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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There are no automatic links between poverty and terrorism. Among millions of poor people in the world, only a few…
— Gijs de Vries
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully…
— William James
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We have a simple rule for switching. Anytime there is movement over the top of a screen, there has to…
— Ralph Miller
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The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.
— Wayne Dyer
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The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the…
— Norbert Wiener
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Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger…
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat…
— Rollo May
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Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a…
— John B. S. Haldane
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I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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