Author: Alexis Carrel

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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