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Ernest Renan
French
Philosopher
About the author
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,
French
Philosopher
#Comfort
#Being
#May
#Truth
#Fact
#Suffering
Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
Ernest Renan,
French
Philosopher
#Thinking
#Opinions
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
Ernest Renan,
French
Philosopher
#People
#Popular
#Truth
#Religion
#Error
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
Ernest Renan,
French
Philosopher
#Death
#Men
#Nation
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
Ernest Renan,
French
Philosopher
#Liberty
#Progress
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan,
French
Philosopher
#Now
#Life
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
Ernest Renan,
French
Philosopher
#Life
#People
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,
French
Philosopher
#World
#Truth
#Morals
#Value
#Fact
#Sentiment
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
Ernest Renan,
French
Philosopher
#Life
#Sacrifice
#Idea
#Succeed
#Struggle
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,
French
Philosopher
#Men
#Succeed
#Fact
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,
French
Philosopher
#Will
#Men
#Reflection
#Heroism
Man makes holy what he believes.
Ernest Renan,
French
Philosopher
#Man
All history is incomprehensible without Christ.
Ernest Renan,
French
Philosopher
#Christ
#History
All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
Ernest Renan,
French
Philosopher
#Humanity
#Name
#Principles
Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.
Ernest Renan,
French
Philosopher
#Blind
Communism is in conflict with human nature.
Ernest Renan,
French
Philosopher
#Nature
#Human nature
#Conflict
#Communism
God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.
Ernest Renan,
French
Philosopher
#God
#Soul
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,
French
Philosopher
#God
#Will
#Being
#May
#Men
I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
Ernest Renan,
French
Philosopher
#Life
Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
Ernest Renan,
French
Philosopher
#Sorrow