Alexis Carrel Men Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer. It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.

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.

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.