Norman Cousins Quotes

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.

The things that have acquired unity are these: Heaven by unity has become clear; Earth by unity has become steady; The Spirit by unity has become spiritual; The Valley by unity has become full; All things by unity have come into existence.

So when we spend all of our time trying to separate that which is already joined, it's a waste of time.

There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole.

'Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same thing.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

I try not to think of my life in terms of separation.

We have always put the quest for balance at the center of our storytelling, whether it is the struggle to find it within one character, between a character and society, between disparate cultures or between humans and their environment.

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

The fundamental thing is to drop the split, to become one. Be one, and then all else is possible; even the impossible is possible.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.

I am two with nature.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

Art and nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another so that the victory is the same stroke and line: that which is conquered, conquers at the same time.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

It is not together, but the ensemble is perfect.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.