All Alexis Carrel Quotes
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
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Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
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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.
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In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
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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.
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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
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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.
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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.
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Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
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