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. – Alexis Carrel
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of ones day and every night to examine the results obtained. – Alexis Carrel
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. – Alexis Carrel
Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive. – Alexis Carrel
I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it. – Ian MacKaye