Author: Alexis Carrel

Quotes

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 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

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

- 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

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

- 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 quality of life is more important than life itself.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

- Alexis Carrel

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

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

- Alexis Carrel

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