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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.
- “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.
- There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.
- In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life. Oliver Sacks.
- Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can.
- To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives.
Dr. Sacks’ new book, On the Move, was released last month to rave reviews, and made it onto the New York Times bestseller list! Thanks to Maria Popova at Brain Pickings for her thoughtful coverage of the book, including some vintage photos by the good doctor during his
May 4, 2015 · On the Move. From his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s and his later work as a writer, On the Move is the story of Oliver Sacks's extraordinary life. A brilliantly unconventional physician and writer - he was the man who illuminated the many ways that the brain makes us human.
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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.”.
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Aug 31, 2015 · Why Oliver Sacks was so remarkable, in 6 quotes. The author and neurologist was so much more than a bearded and bespectacled New York intellectual. Dr. Oliver Sacks speaking in New York City in ...
