Oliver Sacks Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.

  Oliver Sacks

  Eye, Principles, Language

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “The Mind's Eye”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

• 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.

  Oliver Sacks

  Eye, Men, Self

  Oliver Sacks (2014). “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

• We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

  Oliver Sacks

  Eye, Imagination, Brain

• Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of cases had been recognised and described, so much so that Charcot said: 'How is it that a disease so common, so widespread, and so recognisable at a glance - a disease which has doubtless always existed - how is it that it is recognised only now? Why did we need M. Duchenne to open our eyes?'

  Oliver Sacks

  Eye, Needs, Disease

• Creativity...involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm of the imagination, to create and recreate worlds fully in one's mind-while supervising all this with a critical inner eye.

  Oliver Sacks

  Moving, Creativity, Eye

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