Ernest Renan quotes Born: 02/27/1823 Died: 10/02/1892 Country: france

• The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death. (Ernest Renan) [men/nation/death]
• When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it. (Ernest Renan) [people/life]
• I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life. (Ernest Renan) [wish/life]
• Communism is in conflict with human nature. (Ernest Renan) [conflict/human/nature]
• Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own; and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal? (Ernest Renan) [death]
• Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him. (Ernest Renan) [religion/religion/religion]
• Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking. (Ernest Renan) [point/thinking]
• The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. (Ernest Renan) [school/life]
• As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him. (Ernest Renan) [mankind]
• No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life. (Ernest Renan) [life]
• 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) [god/willpower/being/stranger]
• 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) [heroism/men/willpower]
• To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. (Ernest Renan) [age/position/goodwill]
• Man makes holy what he believes. (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. (Ernest Renan) [men]

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