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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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“To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.”

Men Needs Perfection Species

Book:Who Speaks for Man?

Source: Who Speaks for Man?

“The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.”

Men Poet Gains Ultimate Definitions Uniqueness

Author:Norman Cousins

“The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward.”

Ifs Men Moving Pay Failing Achieve Essence Embrace Definitions Imperfection Moving Ahead

Author:Norman Cousins

“To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man is imperfection. Imperfection and blazing contradictions-between mixed good and evil, altruism and selfishness, cooperativeness and combativeness, optimism and fatalism, affirmation and negation.”

Men Needs Evil Perfection Optimism Essence Species Selfishness Contradiction Good And Evil Imperfection Altruism Affirmation Blazing Negation Fatalism

Book:Who Speaks for Man?

Source: Who Speaks for Man?

“All men - whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans - have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies.”

Men Names British Obligation Chinese Sovereign

Book:In place of folly

Source: In place of folly

“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

“I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth.”

Ifs Men Humans Belief Liberty Failing Color Diversity Opposites Harmony Unity Depth Hungry Fulfillment Texture Incomplete Stranded

Book:The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul

Source: The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul

“What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.”

Men Mean Government Force Communication Rational Incapable Means Of Communication

Author:Norman Cousins

“Although a man may have no jurisdiction over the fact of his existence, he can hold supreme command over the meaning of existence for him.”

Men May Facts Existence Supreme Command Meaning Of Life Jurisdiction

Book:Dr. Schweitzer Of Lambaréné

Source: Dr. Schweitzer Of Lambaréné

“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

“Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.”

Men Inspirational Change Challenges Habit Understood Crisis Great Change Enviromental Life Crisis

Book:Who Speaks for Man?

Source: Who Speaks for Man?

“What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.”

Men Eye Earth Journey Feet Moon Significant Voyages

Book:The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul

Source: The Celebration of Life: A Dialogue on Hope, Spirit, and the Immortality of the Soul

“The essence of man is imperfection.”

Men Acceptance Essence Imperfection

Book:Who Speaks for Man?

Source: Who Speaks for Man?

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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