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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 08db6cc | And one day the mind leaps from imagination to hallucination, and the congregant hears God, sees God. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| e77dcc6 | I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential. I must focus on myself, my work, and my friends. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| c558e74 | This is what I get very upset at...' Temple, who was driving suddenly faltered and wept. 'I've read that libraries are where immortality lies... I don't want my thoughts to die with me... I want to have done something... I'm not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution--know that my life has meaning, Right now, I'm talking about things at the very core of my experience... | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 8003cc2 | He has one of the most spacious, thoughtful minds I have ever encountered, with a vast base of knowledge of every sort, but it is a base under continual questioning and scrutiny. (I have seen him suddenly stop in mid-sentence and say, "I no longer believe what I was about to say.")" | Oliver Sacks | ||
| b7244f0 | What they are able to imagine becomes more real to them. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| e327a5d | 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. I | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 3230bf7 | Many patients may confess that they feel "strange" or "confused" during a migraine aura, that they are clumsy in their movements, or that they would not drive at such a time. In short, they may be aware of something the matter in addition to the scintillating scotoma, paraesthesiae, etc., something so unprecedented in their experience, so difficult to describe, that it is often avoided or omitted when speaking of their complaints. Great" | Oliver Sacks | ||
| e71b989 | He is man without a past (or future), stuck in a constantly changing, meaningless moment. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| c5f3b10 | Awakening, basically, is a reversal of this: the patient ceases to feel the presence of illness and the absence of the world, and comes to feel the absence of his illness and the full presence of the world. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| dbe7e85 | Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy) | neurology science tourette-s | Oliver Sacks | |
| a98ed20 | It is often felt that Darwin, more than anyone, banished "meaning" from the world--in the sense of any overall divine meaning or purpose. There is indeed no design, no plan, no blueprint in Darwin's world; natural selection has no direction or aim, nor any goal to which it strives. Darwinism, it is often said, spelled the end of teleological thinking." | Oliver Sacks | ||
| cfa12bd | And in its broadest sense, neural Darwinism implies that we are destined, whether we wish it or not, to a life of particularity and self-development, to make our own individual paths through life. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 30bf081 | All the trouble starts when people forget they're human. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 9b5c6ae | We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection. --Oliver Sacks, Hallucinations | Paula Hawkins | ||
| 331edb1 | We ourselves were made of the very same elements as composed the sun and stars, that some of my atoms might once have been in a distant star. But it frightened me too, made me feel that my atoms were only on loan and might fly apart at any time, fly away like the fine talcum powder I saw in the bathroom. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| c7e62bc | 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 | ||
| 4500f52 | I appreciated that all animals have some form of mental life that reflects the architecture of their nervous system. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 0482af4 | Du Bois Reymond spoke of "a general feeling of disorder" at the very start of his attacks, and other patients speak, simply, of feeling "unsettled." In this unsettled state one may feel hot or cold, or both (see, for example, Case 9); bloated and tight, or loose and queasy; a peculiar tension, or languor, or both; there are head pains, or other pains, sundry strains and discomforts, which come and go. Everything comes and goes, nothing is s.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 1273b9c | I had been to Amsterdam a couple of times with Eric; we loved the museums and the Concertgebouw (it was here that I first heard Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, in Dutch). We loved the canals lined with tall, stepped houses; the old Hortus Botanicus and the beautiful seventeenth-century Portuguese synagogue; the Rembrandtplein with its open-air cafes; the fresh herrings sold in the streets and eaten on the spot; and the general atmosphere o.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| a9888e7 | You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realise that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all . . . Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing . . . (I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life, as it did my mother's . . .) --Luis Bunuel | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 39ff303 | Why is it that of every hundred gifted young musicians who study at Juilliard or every hundred brilliant young scientists who go to work in major labs under illustrious mentors, only a handful will write memorable musical compositions or make scientific discoveries of major importance? Are the majority, despite their gifts, lacking in some further creative spark? Are they missing characteristics other than creativity that may be essential f.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| beaae2d | Children have an elemental hunger for knowledge and understanding, for mental food and stimulation. They do not need to be told or "motivated" to explore or play, for play, like all creative or proto-creative activities, is deeply pleasurable in itself. Both the innovative and the imitative impulses come together in pretend play, often using toys or dolls or miniature replicas of real-world objects to act out new scenarios or rehearse and r.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| ce69bfd | He's a bully. I love bullies. They have such big, shiny red buttons to push." He was such a lawyer." | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 9afa3bd | This conspiracy needs a flow chart, | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 5eea07a | You know why horror-movie characters always get killed? Because they've never seen horror movies. They don't know how it works. Right? But we do. So no one go into the basement alone. No one go screaming off into the woods alone. No one has any sex. | funny-book-quotes horror-movies humour werewolves | Carrie Vaughn | |
| 4c25eb2 | As far as I know, no vampires live in Antarctica." "I'd have thought the long winter nights would be just the thing for you guys," I said. "Perhaps. But the food supply is a bit wanting." | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 76048b3 | Lack of subtlety, that's how you beat magic. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 4546234 | I always told my callers, you can choose. You can decide what to do. Don't blame your homicidal urges or basic assholeness on being a monster, because you can choose. God help me. God, help me. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 78ed52a | I have tried to show how religion, the backbone of civilisation, hardens into a Church that is unacceptable to Outsiders, and the Outsiders -- the men who strive to become visionaries -- become the Rebels. In our case, the scientific progress that has brought us closer than ever before to conquering the problems of civilisation, has also robbed us of spiritual drive; and the Outsider is doubly a rebel: a rebel against the Established Church.. | Colin Wilson | ||
| c36b567 | A tired man is already in the grip of death and insanity ... A sane man is a man who is fully awake. As he grows tired, he loses his ability to rise above dreams and delusions, and life becomes steadily more chaotic. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 21c8205 | But the greatest human problems are not social problems, but decisions that the individual has to make alone. The most important feelings of which man is capable emphasise his separateness from other people, not his kinship with them. The feelings of a mountaineer towards a mountain emphasise his kinship with the mountain rather than with the rest of mankind. The same goes for the leap of the heart experienced by a sailor when he smells the.. | colin-wilson maslow peak-experience transcendence | Colin Wilson | |
| 13c10e8 | Freedom posits free-will; that is self-evident. But Will can only operate when there is first a motive. No motive, no willing. But motive is a matter of belief; you would not want to do anything unless you believed it possible and meaningful. And belief must be belief in the existence of something; that is to say, it concerns what is real. So ultimately, freedom depends upon the real. The Outsider's sense of unreality cuts off his freedom a.. | Colin Wilson | ||
| de64b95 | I have always been aware that human life is dream-like because most human beings exist passively. Their consciousness is little more than a reflection of their environment. In the sexual orgasm, the voltage power of their minds surges, and they become momentarily aware that they are not forty-watt bulbs, but two hundred and fifty, five hundred, a thousand... Then the voltage drops, and they sink back to forty watts without a protest. They a.. | orgasm passivity | Colin Wilson | |
| 1aae6d6 | n s`d@ qy'd `Zym 'nqdh bldh hy tmman nfs ls`d@ lty tsh`r bh ft@ trqS rqSth l'wl~. | Colin Wilson | ||
| c2ee12a | Mind is not really 'inside' us in the same sense that our intestines are. Our individuality is a kind of eddy in the sea of mind, a reflection of the total identity of the universal humanity. | Colin Wilson | ||
| eb6a045 | It leads to a realization that man is not a constant, unchanging being: he is one person one day, another person the next. He forgets easily, lives in the moment, seldom exerts will-power, and even when he does, gives up the effort after a short time, or forgets his original aim and turns to something else. No wonder that poets feel such despair when they seem to catch a glimpse of some intenser state of consciousness, and know with absolut.. | Colin Wilson | ||
| a25171d | lqd ntb lnsn sh`wr mndh lqrn lthmn `shr wb`d Srkh@ nytshh lm`rwf@, b'nWh turika wHydan fy hdh l`lm lkhwy. whw bhdh yshbh lTfl ldhy styqZ ltwh dht SbH, lyjd mn ykhbrh 'nW 'bh qd twfy w'nWh ynbGy `lyh 'n ytHml msw'wly@ l'sr@. nW hdh lHss blHrmn mn l'b nWm hw mn '`Zm lSdmt lnfsy@ lty ymkn llmr 'n yqsyh. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 4743a4e | There can be no doubt that the chief fault we have developed, through the long course of human evolution, is a certain basic passivity. When provoked by challenges, human beings are magnificent. When life is quiet and even, we take the path of least resistance, and then wonder why we feel bored. A man who is determined and active doesn't pay much attention to 'luck'. If things go badly, he takes a deep breath and redoubles his effort. And h.. | fate luck sartre willpower | Colin Wilson | |
| cd970f2 | He's too clever to be wise, if that makes any sense. Very | Herman Wouk | ||
| ea51143 | Boys fight the wars. We'd have the brotherhood of man tomorrow if the politicians had to get out and fight. | war | Herman Wouk | |
| f899807 | I think appreciating Dickens goes with ten thousand in the bank. | Herman Wouk | ||
| 3334723 | the nameless maiden in the advertisement was like a thousand other clothing models he had seen in magazines--arched brows, big eyes, angular cheeks, pouting mouth, a fetching figure, and a haughty, revolted look, as though someone had just offered her a jellyfish to hold. | Herman Wouk | ||
| b7c2b33 | the one loophole that military wisdom can never quite button up--the sympathy of the downtrodden for each other. | Herman Wouk | ||
| 05c1c56 | Kalau begitu mengapa dia tidak dikurung lama berselang?" "Karena dia memakai topeng?" "Apa maksud anda, Dokter?" "Kita semua memakai topeng, Angeli. Sejak kita meninggalkan masa kanak-kanak, kita sudah diajar untuk menyembunyikan perasaan kita yang sebenarnya. Kita sudah diajar untuk menutup-nutupi kebencian dan ketakutan kita. " Suara Judd penuh wibawa. "Tapi di bawah tekanan, Don Vinton akan menjatuhkan topeng dan memperlihatkan wajahnya .. | Sidney Sheldon |