Alexis Carrel Quotes.
Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
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.
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action… Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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 don’t learn to fight worry, die young.
Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
Gigantic sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane asylums and protect the public against gangsters and lunatics. Why do we preserve these useless and harmful beings? The abnormal prevent development of the normal.
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we know, the pulsation of life can go on forever.
Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationship.
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one’s feelings.
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
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 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.
