Quotes from Alexis Carrel

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

?nsan, tekrar yücelmesi için kendini yeni ba?tan in?a etmek zorundad?r. Ve bu yenile?meyi ?zd?rap çekmeden yapamaz. Çünkü o hem mermerdir, hem de heykeltra?. Hakiki biçimini yeniden kazanmak için, büyük çekiç darbelerini kendi maddesine indirerek k?v?lc?mlar ç?karacakt?r.

El tiempo físico nos es extraño, mientras el tiempo interior es nosotros mismos.

To progress again, man must remake himself. And he cannot remake himself withoutsuffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor. In order to uncover his true visage,he must shatter his own substance with heavy blows of his hammer.

It is not certain that the standardized habits of modern life lead to the optimum development of human beings. The present ways of living have been adopted because they are easy and pleasant. Indeed, they differ profoundly from those of our ancestors and of the human groups which have so far resisted industrial civilization. We do not know, as yet, whither they are better or worse.

Les lois des relations humaines nous sont encore inconnues. La sociologie et l'économie politique ne sont que des sciences conjecturales, des pseudo-sciences.

Uma tentativa infeliz vale mais do que a ausência de tentaiva

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.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer. It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.

Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal.

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.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

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.

Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.

The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

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.

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.