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Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.
Those who do not know how to fight worry die young.
The quality of life is more important than life itself.
Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.
Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.
Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.
Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.
When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.
Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.
Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.
The difficulty of finding organs suitable for transplantation on man must be met.
One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know
To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.
In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.
The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
...in recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking.... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.
...the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.
The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.
The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.
If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.
Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.
The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal.
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.
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.
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 atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.
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.
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.
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.
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
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.
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
The Asiatics and the Africans, such as the Russians, the Arabs, the Hindus, are increasing with marked rapidity. Never have the European races been in such great peril as today.
Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.
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.