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

Happiness depends on one being exactly fitted to the nature of one's work.

In recognition of his work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood-vessels and organs.

If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.

Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.

The influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.

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

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

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.

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

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

Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Those who don't learn to fight worry, die young.

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

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.

When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.

The search for God is indeed, an entirely personal undertaking ... the most audacious adventure that one can dare.

Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.

Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate ... It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.

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

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.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.

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

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.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.

The modern city consists of ... dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise ...

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

Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.

The secret of life is to be found in life itself, in the full organic, intellectual and spiritual activities of our body.

There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.

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