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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.
Alexis Carrel
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Alexis Carrel
Age: 71 †
Born: 1873
Born: June 28
Died: 1944
Died: August 21
Biologist
Physiologist
Sociologist
Surgeon
Mont-Chalier
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Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.
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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
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Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
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There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.
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All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
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Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
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When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
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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 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.
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Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
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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.
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More than half of all great remedies known to medical history have come from empiricists...'irregulars'...of no or little scientific training. There is no reason to believe that conditions have essentially changed.
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