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. – 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. – 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. – Norman Cousins
Optimism doesnt wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. – Norman Cousins
The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patients hopes are the physicians secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. – Norman Cousins
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man. – Norman Cousins
We will not have peace by afterthought. – 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. – Norman Cousins
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. – 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. – 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. – 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. – Norman Cousins
My reason nourishes my faith and my faith my reason. – Norman Cousins
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny. – 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. – Norman Cousins
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. – 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. – Norman Cousins
He who keeps his cool best wins. – Norman Cousins
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. – Norman Cousins
Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? – Norman Cousins
