Author: Alexis Carrel

Quotes

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

- Alexis Carrel

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

- Alexis Carrel

The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal.

The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal.

- Alexis Carrel

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

- Alexis Carrel

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

- Alexis Carrel

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

- Alexis Carrel

The Asiatics and the Africans, such as the Russians, the Arabs, the Hindus, are increasing with marked rapidity. Never have the European races been in such great peril as today.

The Asiatics and the Africans, such as the Russians, the Arabs, the Hindus, are increasing with marked rapidity. Never have the European races been in such great peril as today.

- Alexis Carrel

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

- Alexis Carrel

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

- Alexis Carrel

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