Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.
I cannot pretend i am not without fear. - Oliver Sacks
I cannot pretend i am not without fear.
- Oliver Sacks
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to s… - Oliver Sacks
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to s…
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of dep… - Oliver Sacks
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of dep…
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure. - Oliver Sacks
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular… - Oliver Sacks
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular…
In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life. - Oliver Sacks
In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.
My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me. - Oliver Sacks
My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.
Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. - Oliver Sacks
Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.
The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication. - Oliver Sacks
The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
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