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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.
By Norman Cousins
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.
By Norman Cousins
The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
By 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.
By Norman Cousins
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.
By Norman Cousins
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.
By Norman Cousins
Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?
By Norman Cousins
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.
By Norman Cousins
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of her (or his) own conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life.
By Norman Cousins
What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . .a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.
By Norman Cousins
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
By Norman Cousins
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
By Norman Cousins
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
By Norman Cousins
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.
By Norman Cousins
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
By Norman Cousins
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
By Norman Cousins