Alexis Carrel Quotes - Page 2

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• The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

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  Beauty, Carpe Diem, Form

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• Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.

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  Men, Logic

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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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  Destiny, Giving, Firsts

  "Reflections On Life". Book by Alexis Carrel, 1952.

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• Jesus knows our world. He does not disdain us like the God of Aristotle. We can speak to Him and He answers us. Although He is a person like ourselves, He is God and transcends all things.

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  Jesus, Our World, Atheism

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• Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

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  Reality, Perception, Intuition

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

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  Quality, Useless, Persons

  "Man, The Unknown". Book by Alexis Carrel, 1935.

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• Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this self-denial than the rich and the intellectual.

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  Brother, Prayer, Men

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• The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.

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  Science, Technology, Average

  Man the Unknown Chapter 2, 4 (p. 49)

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Giving, Mind

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• Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.

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  Animal, Soul, World

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• Enormous amounts of money are spent for publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical products, at the least useless, and often harmful, have become a necessity for civilized men.

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  Dark, Men, Age

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.

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  Adventure, Dare, Audacious

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.

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  Sacrifice, Discipline, Joy

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• In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.

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  Wisdom, Men, Important

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.

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  Fighting, Worry, Young

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Reality, Understanding

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• When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.

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  Links, Praying, Motive

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• Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of healing.

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  Cancer, Healing, Dark

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• Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.

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  Prayer, Hymns, Demand

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• One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.

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  Effort, Feelings, Oneself

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• Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made strong enough to assert itself once more. For if the power of prayer is again released and used in the lives of common men and women; if the spirit declares its aims clearly and boldly, there is yet hope that our prayers for a better world will be answered.

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  Strong, Prayer, Exercise

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• To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know

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  Men, Responsible, Given

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• More than half of all great remedies known to medical history have come from empiricists...'irregulars'...of no or little scientific training. There is no reason to believe that conditions have essentially changed.

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  Believe, Dark, Training

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• To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

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  Distance, Destiny, Nightfall

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• It seems that the increased number of scientific workers, their being split up into groups whose studies are limited to a small subject, and over-specialization have brought about a shrinking of intelligence. There is no doubt that the quality of any human group decreases when the number of the individuals composing this group increases beyond certain limits... The best way to increase the intelligence of scientists would be to decrease their number.

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  Science, Men, Numbers

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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