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Norman Cousins Quotes

1915–1990 United States

Norman Cousins (June 24, 1915 - November 30, 1990) was an Adjunct Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of California and a prominent world federalist leader. He became executive editor (and then editor-in-chief) of the Saturday Review of Literature; under his leadership, circulation increased from 20,000 to 650,000.

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Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.

Anatomy of an Illness (1979)

Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths.

The Pathology of Power (1987)

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations..

Human Options (1981)

The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world consciousness and a world design. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

Editorial (1971)

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

Human Options (1981)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Norman Cousins (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.