Norman Cousins
Norman Cousins
Norman Cousinswas an American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth24 June 1915
CountryUnited States of America
equality opposites lows
For every low there is an equal but opposite high.
infinity statistics inevitable
Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.
math two personality
Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
intellectual literature cynicism
Cynicism is intellectual treason.
peace war world
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
senior country government
Capitalism in the United States has undergone profound modification, not just under the New Deal but through a consensus that continued to grow after the New Deal. Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.
size purpose problem
The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
disease panic serious
Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.
determination attitude moving
Since the human body tends to move in the direction of its expectations- plus or minus-it is important to know that attitudes of confidence and determination are no less a part of the treatment program than medical science and technology.
mistake philosophy america
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.
self despair trouble
The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.
spring self people
The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling. People who fear the worst tend to invite it. Heads that are down can't scan the horizon for new openings. Bursts of energy do not spring from a spirit of defeat. Ultimately, helplessness leads to hopelessness.
father individual-choice choices
Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty. Belief or nonbelief was a matter of individual choice - a right underwritten in the basic charter of the nation's liberties.
american-editor birth delivery famous history ideas metaphor room
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.