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
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Like a celestial chaperon, the placebo leads us through the uncharted passageways of mind and gives us a greater sense of infinity than if we were to spend all our days with our eyes hypnotically glued to the giant telescope at Mt. Palomar. What we see ultimately is that the placebo isn't really necessary and that the mind can carry out its difficult and wondrous missions unprompted by little pills. The placebo is only a tangible object made essential in an age that feels uncomfortable with intangibles, an age that prefers to think that every inner effect must have an outer cause. Since it has size and shape and can be hand-held, the placebo satisfies the contemporary craving for visible mechanisms and visible answers . The placebo, then, is an emissary between the will to live and the body.
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Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
changes crisis great imprisoned man recognized wrought
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
inspirational life sympathy
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
kindness work mean
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.
time thinking america
We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
being-real realizing enough
All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.
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.
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.