"the life force may be the least understood force on earth" Books:"Anatomy(Btr) of an IlIness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and regeneration, The Healing Heart: Antidotes to Panic and Helplessness Reflection on Atomic Bomb i wonder if we might go back to that day in august when the world learned of the dropping of the atomic bomb. As editor of a leading magazine in the United States, what was your reaction? What were your thoughts, and what did you do? And one had a feeling, or at least I did, that a curtain had dropped on human history and that a new curtain was going up, and that no one quite knew what the new script would be. But the fact that the old play had ended seemed rather clear. It also to me that a blanket of obsolescence(荒废,退化) had been thrown over human history because all the things that human beings did, in terms of civilization, suddenly seemed to have no valid ity because there was now no mechanism by which human beings could provide for a reasonably secure future. We had always lived with the habits of war, and now methods for fighting war represented an entirely new dimension in warfare which threatened the species as a whole but the habits of war and the habits of thinking about relations among nations, hadn't changed, and so we were trapped. And so I say there was a sense that the curtain had come down on one stage in human history and a new curtain was going up, the script for which had not been written And you became an even more intense an advocate of world government and world federalism as a way out Since I am opposed to anarchy, and since the principle danger in the world was anarchy on a world level, I couldn' t take leave of my convictions about the dangers of anarchy just because nations created this situation Quotes by Norman Cousins Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic History is a vast early warning system Life is an ad venture in forgiveness 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 If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortalit 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 Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences Summary of his life3 "the life force may be the least understood force on earth“ Books: “Anatomy（剖析） of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration,” “The Healing Heart: Antidotes to Panic and Helplessness.” Reflection on Atomic Bomb I wonder if we might go back to that day in August when the world learned of the dropping of the atomic bomb. As editor of a leading magazine in the United States, what was your reaction? What were your thoughts, and what did you do? And one had a feeling, or at least I did, that a curtain had dropped on human history and that a new curtain was going up, and that no one quite knew what the new script would be. But the fact that the old play had ended seemed rather clear. It also seemed to me that a blanket of obsolescence(荒废，退化) had been thrown over human history, because all the things that human beings did, in terms of civilization, suddenly seemed to have no validity because there was now no mechanism by which human beings could provide for a reasonably secure future. We had always lived with the habits of war, and now methods for fighting war represented an entirely new dimension in warfare which threatened the species as a whole. But the habits of war, and the habits of thinking about relations among nations, hadn't changed, and so we were trapped. And so I say there was a sense that the curtain had come down on one stage in human history and a new curtain was going up, the script for which had not been written. And you became an even more intense an advocate of world government and world federalism as a way out. Since I am opposed to anarchy, and since the principle danger in the world was anarchy on a world level, I couldn't take leave of my convictions about the dangers of anarchy just because nations created this situation. Quotes by Norman Cousins Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors. The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical. Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going. Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. History is a vast early warning system. Life is an adventure in forgiveness. 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. If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. 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. Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. Summary of his life