Author: Ernest Renan

Quotes

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.

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

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

- Ernest Renan

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

- Ernest Renan

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

- Ernest Renan

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.

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

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

- Ernest Renan

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.

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

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

- Ernest Renan

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.

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

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