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Norman Cousins was an American journalist, author, and professor. He is renowned for his role as a journalist and his promotion of laughter as a therapeutic method. Born on June 24, 1915, Cousins passed away on November 30, 1990.

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Famous Norman Cousins Quotes

“We will not have peace by afterthought.”

Literature Peace Afterthought

Author:Norman Cousins

“Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.”

Men Life Stills Life Is Literature Individual Respect Importance Mark Educated Live Life Love Life Fragility Individual Life Educated Man Fragility Of Life

Author:Norman Cousins

“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.”

Men Life Feels Feelings Pain Life Is Dies Literature Awareness Glory Tragedy Response Inspired Genuine Great Tragedy Tragedy And Comedy

Author:Norman Cousins

“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.”

Source: Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey

“He who keeps his cool best wins.”

Literature Winning

Author:Norman Cousins

“It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.”

May Problem Literature Answers Healing Health Doctors Medicine Medical Reasonable

Book:Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration

Source: Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration

“Cynicism is intellectual treason.”

Literature Intellectual Cynicism Treason

Author:Norman Cousins

“Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.”

Hope Literature Logic Independent Anticipation

Author:Norman Cousins

“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.”

Action Universe Literature Energy Felt Causes Loss Effects Ultimate Unseen Inaction Seen And Unseen

Book:The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity

Source: The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity

About the Author

Born: June 24, 1915
Died: November 30, 1990
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 151

Books & Sources

Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and RegenerationRelated source material

Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human SpiritRelated source material

The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinityRelated source material

Anatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the PatientRelated source material

Present Tense; an American Editor's OdysseyRelated source material

The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the SoulRelated source material

Who Speaks for Man?Related source material

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In place of follyRelated source material

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