Frases de Alexis Carrel

“A inteligência é quase inútil para quem não tem mais nada.”

“O homem não pode fazer-se sem sofrer, pois é ao mesmo tempo o mármore o escultor.”

“A única maneira de aumentar a inteligência dos sábios seria diminuir o seu número.”

“O homem tem necessidade de Deus como tem necessidade de água e oxigénio.”

“Todos os grandes homens são dotados de intuição: um verdadeiro chefe não necessita de testes psicológicos nem de informações para escolher os seus colaboradores.”

“Para cumprirmos nosso destino, não é suficiente simplesmente guardarmo-nos prudentemente contra os acidentes do percurso. Devemos também cobrir, antes do cair da noite, a distância designada para cada um de nós.”

“Só o amor é capaz de criar nas sociedades humanas a ordem que o instinto estabeleceu há milhares de anos no mundo das formigas e das abelhas.”

“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.”

“The existence of finality within the organism is undeniable. Each part seems to know the present and future needs of the whole, and acts accordingly. The significance of time and space is not the same for our tissues as for our mind. The body perceives the remote as well as the near, the future as well as the present.”

“Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.”

“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.”

“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.”

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