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Ernest Renan [1823-1892] French

Joseph Ernest Renan was a French expert of Semitic languages and civilizations, philosopher, historian, and writer, devoted to his native province of Brittany.

Education, Freedom, Good, Men, Sad

Quote	Tags	Rank
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.	Good, Men	101
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.	Education	102
Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.		103
All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.		104
Communism is in conflict with human nature.		105
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.		106
Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.	Sad	107
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.		108
Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.		109
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.		110
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.		111
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.		112
God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.		113
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.	Freedom	114
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.		115
Man makes holy what he believes.		116
I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.		117
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.		118
All history is incomprehensible without Christ.		119
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.		120

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