“ Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well Oliver Sacks
“ Cortical maps are dynamic, and can change as circumstances alter. Many of us have experienced this, getting a new pair of glasses or a new hearing aid. At first the new glasses or hearing aids seem in… Oliver Sacks
“ But we know from the experience of Tony Cicoria and many others that a hallucinatory journey to the bright light and beyond, a full-blown NDE, can occur in twenty or thirty seconds, even though it see… Oliver Sacks
“ Anatomists today would be hard put to identify the brain of a visual artist, a writer, or a mathematician—but they could recognize the brain of a professional musician without a moment’s hesitation. Oliver Sacks
“ Read 1984 when it came out in 1949, and found its account of the ‘memory hole’ peculiarly evocative and frightening, for it accorded with my own doubts about my memory. I think that reading this led t… Oliver Sacks
“ One newsmagazine, in 1987, defined them, half facetiously, as cognitively infectious musical agents.) 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.) Oliver Sacks
“ أنا أتجرّأ وأؤكّد... بأننا لا شيء سوى حزمة أو مجموعة من إحساسات مختلفة تتبع بعضها بعضاً بسرعة لا يمكن تصوُّرها، وبتدفّق وحركة دائمَين. Oliver Sacks
“ Învesmântate în acest sentiment al extazului, arzând de o adânca semnificatie divina si filozofica, viziunile lui Hildegard au contribuit la îndrumarea ei catre o viata închinata sfinteniei si mistici… Oliver Sacks
“ That nothing in biology made sense except in the light of evolution and chance, contingency. He put everything in the context of deep evolutionary time. Steve Oliver Sacks
“ Judgment is the most important faculty we have. An animal, or a man, may get on very well without ‘abstract attitude’ but will speedily perish if deprived of judgment. Judgment must be the first facul… Oliver Sacks
“ When traditional figures—devils, witches, or hags—are no longer believed in, new ones—aliens, visitations from a previous life—take their place. Hallucinations, Oliver Sacks
“ When I visited Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., (it is the only university in the world for deaf and hearing-impaired students) and talked about the hearing impaired, one of the deaf students… Oliver Sacks
“ Some sense of ongoing, of next, is always with us. But this sense of movement, of happening, Greg lacked; he seemed immured, without knowing it, in a motionless, timeless moment. And whereas for the r… Oliver Sacks
“ Our efforts to ‘re-connect’ William all fail – even increase his confabulatory pressure. But when we abdicate our efforts, and let him be, he sometimes wanders out into the quiet and undemanding garde… Oliver Sacks
“ Neurologically, OBEs are a form of bodily illusion arising from a temporary dissociation of visual and proprioceptive representations—normally these are coordinated, so that one views the world, inclu… Oliver Sacks
“ Lev Vygotsky, the great Russian psychologist, used to speak of thinking in pure meanings. I cannot decide whether this is nonsense or profound truth—it is the sort of reef I end up on when I think abo… Oliver Sacks
“ I have traversed many kinds of health, and keep traversing them... and as for sickness: are we not almost tempted to ask whether we could get along without it? Only great pain is the liberator of the… Oliver Sacks
