“ The act of writing is itself enough; it serves to clarify my thoughts and feelings. The act of writing is an integral part of my mental life; ideas emerge, are shaped, in the act of writing. Oliver Sacks
“ My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on thi… Oliver Sacks
“ My father, who lived to ninety-four, often said that the eighties had been one of the most enjoyable decades of his life. He felt, as I begin to feel, not a shrinking but an enlargement of mental life… Oliver Sacks
“ In the mid-1950s, when I was in medical school, there seemed to be an unbridgeable gap between our neurophysiology and the actualities of how patients experienced neurological disorders. Oliver Sacks
“ In his autobiography, What Mad Pursuit, he speaks of the difference between physics and biology: Oliver Sacks
“ If the last few decades have seen a surge or resurgence of ambiguous memory and identity syndromes, they have also led to important research—forensic, theoretical, and experimental—on the malleability… Oliver Sacks
“ I felt inspired by Karl and determined to lift greater pound-ages myself, to work on the one lift I was already fairly good at—the squat. Training intensively, even obsessively, at a small gym in San… Oliver Sacks
“ He was not imitating me; he had become me, in a sense; it was like suddenly acquiring a younger twin. Oliver Sacks
“ For there is often a struggle, and sometimes, even more interestingly, a collusion between the powers of pathology and creation. Oliver Sacks
“ Dr. P. may therefore serve as a warning and parable -- of what happens to a science which eschews the judgmental, the particular, the personal, and becomes entirely abstract and computational. Oliver Sacks
“ As Sicknes is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes, is solitude...Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itselfe.-DONNE Oliver Sacks
“ الطبيبُ والمريضُ نظيران , يتّعلمُ كل منهما من الآخر و يساعده ويتوصلان معآ إلى معارف جديدة وعلاج * Oliver Sacks
“ Fossilised dream-sequences preserved as such in the cortex, precise replicas of past experience; they appear to be mnemic images which unfold, given the initial activation (epileptic, migrainous, expe… Oliver Sacks
“ You care, you really care for me! Of course, Eric said. How could you doubt it? But it was not easy to believe that anyone cared for me; I sometimes failed to realize, I think, how much my parents car… Oliver Sacks
“ What an odd thing it is to see an entire species -- billions of people -- playing with, listening to meaningless tonal patterns, occupied and preoccupied for much of their time by what they call 'musi… Oliver Sacks
“ The language of feeling, of the concrete, of image and symbol, formed a world she loved and, to a remarkable extent, could enter. Oliver Sacks
“ The best way of doing this, I found, was to write, to describe the hallucination in clear, almost clinical detail, and, in so doing, become an observer, even an explorer, not a helpless victim of the… Oliver Sacks
