"The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales" Quotes
"The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales" by Oliver Sacks is a collection of fascinating case studies exploring neurological disorders and the complexities of the human brain.
nonfiction | 243 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
To talk of diseases is a sort of Arabian Nights entertainment.
We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well.
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.
Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional.
The brain is the most intricate mechanism in the universe, and yet it is so delicate, so susceptible to injury and disease.
The act of perception is always an act of creation.
Awakenings take us out of the sleep of our own consciousness.
We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think.
The pleasure we derive from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously.
To restore the human subject at the center—the suffering, afflicted, fighting, human subject—we must deepen a case history to a narrative or tale.
