Thursday, May 29, 2008

A Leg to Stand On: Oliver Sacks

"...in this limbo, this dark night, I could not turn to science. Faced with a reality, which reason could not solve, I turned to art and religion for comfort. It was these, and these only, that could call through the night, could communicate, could make sense, make more intelleigble--and tolerable 'We have art, in order that we may not perish from the truth' (Nietzsche). "

Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up from the depths of the earth. --Psalms 71:20

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