Ernest Renan Quotes
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~ Ernest Renan Quote
You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
All history is incomprehensible without Christ.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
Communism is in conflict with human nature.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.
~ Ernest Renan Quote
