The love of beauty in its ...

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
 Alexis Carrel

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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
 Alexis Carrel
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
 Alexis Carrel
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
Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of healing.
 Alexis Carrel
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
 Alexis Carrel