Alexis Carrel
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.Collection: Jealousy
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.Collection: Peace
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.Collection: Morning
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.Collection: Beauty
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.Collection: Men
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Power
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.Collection: Science
Perhaps I will stay in Chicago and operate on human beings instead of on dogs. From a business standpoint, it would be excellent. But, as I hate medical practice, I would like better to make little money in doing scientific work than a great deal in doing surgical operations.Collection: Business
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.Collection: Truth
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Society
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
The quality of life is more important than life itself.
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
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.
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal.
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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.
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.
The difficulty of finding organs suitable for transplantation on man must be met.
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. 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.Collection: Strength
If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquillity of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. Within the depths of consciousness a flame kindles. And man sees himself. He discovers his selfishness, his silly pride, his fears, his greeds, his blunders. He develops a sense of moral obligation, intellectual humility. Thus begins a journey of the soul toward the realm of grace.Collection: Prayer
Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.Collection: Spiritual
Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Healing
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.Collection: Faith
If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.Collection: Doctors
In joy or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or the reverse, the effort must still continue. One must rise after every fall and gradually acquire courage, faith, the will to succeed and the capacity to love.Collection: Fall
The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.Collection: Spiritual
The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.Collection: Science
Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.Collection: Fighting
Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Brother
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.Collection: Sacrifice
Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.Collection: Animal
There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.Collection: Art
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.Collection: Personality
The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.Collection: Dark
...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.Collection: Dark
...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.Collection: Dark
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.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Prayer
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.Collection: Wisdom
Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Jesus