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

Quote by Alexis Carrel

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The quality of life is more important than life itself.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

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

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

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all...

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all...

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

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

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do...

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

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

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

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual...

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual...

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of...

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of...

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

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

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves...

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves...

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

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

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to...

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to...

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow...

Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow...

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed...

And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed...