Norman Cousins

Who was Norman Cousins?

Norman Cousins was an American political journalist, author, professor, and world peace advocate.

Famous Quotes:

• Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
• 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.
• 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.
• We in America have everything we need except the most important thing of all-time to think and the habit of thought.
• All this sensory input, which begins in the brain, has its effect throughout the body.
• The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness.
• War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
• 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.
• Drugs are not always necessary, but belief in recovery always is.
• 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.