Author: Alexis Carrel

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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

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

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 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

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

- 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

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

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

- 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

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