“ Temple is a hero now to many in the autism community around the world, widely admired for forcing all of us to see autism and Asperger’s not as neurological deficits so much as different modes of bein… Oliver Sacks
“ Specifically, he wonders – and one in turn may wonder whether these thoughts were perhaps incited by his working with patients, in a hospital, in the war – he wonders whether there might be situations… Oliver Sacks
“ She has no words, and we lack words too. And society lacks words, and sympathy, for such states. Oliver Sacks
“ She had an intense feeling for structure, the way things were put together – whether they were human bodies, or plants, or scientific instruments or machines. Oliver Sacks
“ Rousseau habla de un lenguaje humano original o primordial, en el que todo tiene su nombre natural y auténtico; un lenguaje tan concreto, tan particular, que es capaz de captar la esencia, la mismidad… Oliver Sacks
“ Perception is never purely in the present - it has to draw on experience of the past;(...).We all have detailed memories of how things have previously looked and sounded, and these memories are recall… Oliver Sacks
“ Para ser nosotros mismos hemos de tenernos a nosotros mismos, hemos de poseer, de reposeer si es preciso, nuestras historias biográficas. Hemos de <> nosotros mismos el drama interior, la narración, l… Oliver Sacks
“ Over the last few days, I have been able to see my life as from a great altitude, as a sort of landscape, and with a deepening sense of the connection of all its parts. This does not mean I am finishe… Oliver Sacks
“ Our tests, our approaches...are ridiculously inadequate. They only show us deficits, they do not show us powers; they only show us puzzles and schemata, when we need to see music, narrative, play, a b… Oliver Sacks
“ Nothing I could say could repel or shock her; there seemed no limit to her powers of sympathy and understanding, the generosity and spaciousness of her heart. Oliver Sacks
“ My favourite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals – my old and valued friends – Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum,… Oliver Sacks
“ Music can also evoke worlds very different from the personal, remembered worlds of events, people, places we have known. Oliver Sacks
“ Leonard L., speaking for them all, wrote at the end of his autobiography: ‘I am a living candle. I am consumed that you may learn. New things will be seen in the light of my suffering. Oliver Sacks
“ Jimmie pode redimir-se ou reencontrar-se, mesmo que seja apenas por breves instantes, através de uma relação emocional, porque ele sabe que está perdido. Oliver Sacks
“ It was backbreaking, round-the-clock work, and it made us realize how hard the nurses and aides and orderlies worked in their normal routines, but we managed to prevent skin breakdown or any other pro… Oliver Sacks
“ It is often felt that Darwin, more than anyone, banished meaning from the world—in the sense of any overall divine meaning or purpose. There is indeed no design, no plan, no blueprint in Darwin’s worl… Oliver Sacks
“ In the newly sighted, learning to see demands a radical change in neurological functioning and, with it, a radical change in psychological functioning, in self, in identity. The change may be experien… Oliver Sacks
“ I had been to Amsterdam a couple of times with Eric; we loved the museums and the Concertgebouw (it was here that I first heard Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes, in Dutch). We loved the canals lined wi… Oliver Sacks
