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The quality of life is more important than life itself.
Alexis Carrel

Life, Important, Quality

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Alexis Carrel

Cannot, Suffering, Both

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
Alexis Carrel

Help, Advice, Lives

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

Jealousy, Life, Hatred

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

Reality, Intuition, Perception

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Alexis Carrel

Hurt, Help, Everyone

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

Beauty, Love, Human

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Alexis Carrel

Great, Men, Intuition

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.
Alexis Carrel

Morning, Live, Night

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.
Alexis Carrel

Society, Give, Destiny

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
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Truth, Few, Lead

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

Important, Measurable

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

Life, Rock, Through

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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Power, Human, Thinking

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
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Greatest, Mankind, Comforts

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

Life, Best, Human

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

Peace, Religion, Strength

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

Act, Extent, Morally

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.
Alexis Carrel

Knowledge, Science, Reality

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.
Alexis Carrel

Long, Reality, Themselves

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Scientist

Born: June 28, 1873

Died: November 5, 1944

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