Alexis Carrel

The quality of life is more important than life itself. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#itself #life #more #quality #quality of life

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

— Alexis Carrel

#ineffable #inner #inner strength #light #man

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

#day #efficient #efficient way #every #every night

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. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#absolute #absolute power #allows #belief #clear

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#few #lead #little #many #much

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#greatest #mankind #syphilis

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

— Alexis Carrel

#bringing #conditions #hard #human #human personality

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

#broadest #broadest sense #comprehending #instrument #knowledge

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

#dangerous #fog #laboratories #lecture #libraries

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

— Alexis Carrel

#any #extent #given #know #man