Quotes by Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins

Norman Cousins

American Editor, Humanitarian, Author

Lived from: 1915 - 1990

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 24 june 1915 Died: 30 november 1990

  • Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
  • The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
  • We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
  • It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
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  • A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.
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  • A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
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  • All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
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  • Cynicism is intellectual treason.
    Human Options (1981)
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  • Death is not the ultimate tragedy in life. The ultimate tragedy is to die without discovering the possibilities of full growth.
    Good Housekeeping November 1989, p. 92
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  • Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
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  • Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will.
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  • Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
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  • If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
    Anatomy of an Illness (1979)
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  • It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
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  • Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.
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  • Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
    Saturday Review 15 April 1978
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  • Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
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  • The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
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  • The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
    Human Options (1981)
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  • The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
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  • The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
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  • The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
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  • War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
    Who Speaks for Man (1953) p. 318
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  • We have learned to live in a world of mistakes and defective products as if they were necessary to life. It is time to adopt a new philosophy in America.
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What are the most famous quotes from Norman Cousins?

The two most famous quotes from Norman Cousins are:

  • "A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences."
  • "A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."

When did Norman Cousins live?

Norman Cousins was born in 1915 and died in the year 1990.