Author: Ernest Renan

Quotes

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

- Ernest Renan

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

- Ernest Renan

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