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Alexis Carrel
French
Scientist
About the author
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,
French
Scientist
#Thinking
#Logic
#Belief
#Power
#Desire
#Pride
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,
French
Scientist
#Science
#Sense
#Knowledge
#Reality
The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
Alexis Carrel,
French
Scientist
#Reality
#Libraries
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,
French
Scientist
#First
#Society
#Destiny
#Duty
#Possibility
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
Alexis Carrel,
French
Scientist
#Love
#Beauty
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
Alexis Carrel,
French
Scientist
#Strength
#Peace
#Man
#Light
#Religion
#Spiritual
The quality of life is more important than life itself.
Alexis Carrel,
French
Scientist
#Life
#Quality
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
Alexis Carrel,
French
Scientist
#Life
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
Alexis Carrel,
French
Scientist
#Man
#Act
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,
French
Scientist
#Day
#Night
#Results
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
Alexis Carrel,
French
Scientist
#People
#Help
#Advice
#Moments
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Alexis Carrel,
French
Scientist
#Man
#Suffering
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Alexis Carrel,
French
Scientist
#Men
#Intuition
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
Alexis Carrel,
French
Scientist
#Life
#Laws
#Hatred
#Jealousy
#Forbidden
Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
Alexis Carrel,
French
Scientist
#Enemies
#Mankind
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Alexis Carrel,
French
Scientist
#People
#Hurt
#Help
#Effort
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
Alexis Carrel,
French
Scientist
#Life
#Personality
In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
Alexis Carrel,
French
Scientist
#Man
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
Alexis Carrel,
French
Scientist
#Perception
#Reality
#Intuition
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Alexis Carrel,
French
Scientist
#Observation
#Truth
#Error