Author: Ernest Renan

Quotes

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

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.

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

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

- Ernest Renan

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

- 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

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

- 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

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

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

- Ernest Renan

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