17 Quotations by Ernest Renan
- 1. As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass o ...
- 2. As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind, I see no limit to the horizon which op ...
- 3. Communism is in conflict with human nature.
- 4. He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among me ...
- 5. I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
- 6. Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the cl ...
- 7. Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
- 8. Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religi ...
- 9. No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain ...
- 10. Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
- 11. Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by ...
- 12. The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
- 13. The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
- 14. The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his l ...
- 15. To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enou ...
- 16. To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplis ...
- 17. When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
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