Alexis Carrel Quotes

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Man must remake himself. And he cannot remake himself without suffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor.

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

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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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All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from others.

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The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal. The ideal solution would be the suppression of each of these individuals as soon as he has proven himself to be dangerous.

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In researches dealing with physics and chemistry, and also with physiology, one always attempts to isolate relatively simple systems, and to determine their exact conditions.

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The influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.

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The conditioning of petty criminals with the whip, or some more scientific procedure, followed by a short stay in hospital, would probably suffice to insure order. Those who have murdered, robbed while armed with automatic pistol or machine gun, kidnapped children, despoiled the poor of their savings, misled the public in important matters, should be humanely and economically disposed of in small euthanasic institutions supplied with proper gasses. A similar treatment could be advantageously applied to the insane, guilty of criminal acts.

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The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise...

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

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

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

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They [astronomy, mechanics and physics] search for reality beyond the realm of common thought up to unutterable abstractions consisting only of equations of symbols.

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