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Oliver Sacks. Eye, Imagination, Brain. 146 Copy quote. 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. Memories, Imagination, Perception. Oliver Sacks (2011). “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain”, p.127, Pan Macmillan.
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Aug 30, 2016 · He confronted death directly, with courageous curiosity and radiant lucidity, in one of his New York Times essays posthumously collected in the small, enormously life-affirming book Gratitude (public library) — that great parting gift which gave us Dr. Sacks’s warm wisdom on the measure of living and the dignity of dying, edited by his partner, the writer and photographer Bill Hayes, and ...
- “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, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous.
- “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.”
- “My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.” ― Oliver Sacks.
- “We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.” ― Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices.
May 18, 2015 · Oliver Sacks in Greenwich Village in 1961, on his new BMW R60 (Photograph: Douglas White) This was the start of Dr. Sacks’s love affair with the world of physique and strength training — a deeply personal proto-demonstration of something he’d later come to demonstrate as a pioneering neurologist: that the mind is indivisible from the body.
Nov 24, 2015 · In his final months, Dr. Sacks reflected on his unusual existential adventure and his courageous dance with death in a series of lyrical New York Times essays, posthumously published in the slim yet enormously enchanting book Gratitude (public library), edited by his friend and assistant of thirty years, Kate Edgar, and his partner, the writer and photographer Bill Hayes.
15 likes. Like. “I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.”. ― Oliver Sacks, Gratitude. tags: death, dying, last-words, life. 14 likes. Like. “I feel glad to be alive—“I’m glad I’m not dead!” sometimes bursts out of me when the weather is perfect.”.
Oliver Sacks (1998). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales”, p.110, Simon and Schuster
