“ But who was more tragic, or who was more damned—the man who knew it, or the man who did not? Oliver Sacks
“ But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the damned,' whereas Dr P. was not fighting, did not kno… Oliver Sacks
“ مع كل خطوة، وكل تقدُّم، تتّسع آفاق المرء، ويخطو خارج عالمٍ منكمش؛ عالم لم يدرك أنه كان منكمشاً إلى هذا الحدّ. لقد وجدت هذا في كل حقل، فسيولوجياً ووجودياً. Oliver Sacks
“ Entered my life and have been with me, for better or worse, ever since. A carefree life became a careful one, to some extent. I felt this was the end of youth and that middle age was now upon me. Oliver Sacks
“ With others, of whom there were no actual visual memories, there were, at one point, incontinent visual projections (perhaps analogous to Wright’s auditory phantasms and the phantom limbs of amputees:… Oliver Sacks
“ The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity, Wittgenstein says. Thus it may take an outside view to show the native users of a language t… Oliver Sacks
“ Such epileptic hallucinations or dreams, Penfield showed, are never phantasies: they are always memories, and memories of the most precise and vivid kind, accompanied by the emotions which accompanied… Oliver Sacks
“ One must drop all presuppositions and dogmas and rules - for there only lead to stalemate or disaster; one must cease to regard all patients as replicas, and honor each one with individual reactions a… Oliver Sacks
“ My brother immediately confirmed the first bombing incident, saying, I remember it exactly as you described it. But regarding the second bombing, he said, You never saw it. You weren’t there. I was st… Oliver Sacks
“ If God, or the eternal order, was revealed to Dostoievski in seizures, why should not other organic conditions serve as ‘portals’ to the beyond or the unknown? Oliver Sacks
“ Humans are storytelling creatures preeminently. We organize the world as a set of tales. How, then, can a person make any sense of his confusing environment if he cannot comprehend stories or surmise… Oliver Sacks
“ Here then was the paradox of the President’s speech. We normals—aided, doubtless, by our wish to be fooled, were indeed well and truly fooled (‘Populus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur’). And so cunningly… Oliver Sacks
“ Cualquier enfermedad introduce una duplicidad en la vida: un ello, con sus propias necesidades, exigencias y limitaciones. Oliver Sacks
“ There is no necessary dilution of reality in representation; quite the opposite, if the representation has power. Reality is conferred, re-conferred, by every original representation. Oliver Sacks
“ The enhancement of evoked potentials spread forward into the left temporal lobe, which is normally regarded as purely auditory in function. This is a very remarkable and, one suspects, fundamental fin… Oliver Sacks
“ Whichever method is utilised—violent physical, visceral, or emotional activity—the common factor is arousal. The patient is, as it were, awoken from his migraine as if from sleep. We shall further hav… Oliver Sacks
“ WHILE MUSIC alone can unlock people with parkinsonism, and movement or exercise of any kind is also beneficial, an ideal combination of music and movement is provided by dance (and dancing with a part… Oliver Sacks
“ The hateful mood of a migraine—depressed and withdrawn, or furious and irascible—tends to melt away in the stage of lysis, to melt away with the physiological secretion. Resolution by secretion thus r… Oliver Sacks
“ The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.) The real founda… Oliver Sacks
