Quotes of Ernest Renan - somelinesforyou

“ Muslims are the first victims of Islam. [...] To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him. ”

- Ernest Renan

“ Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient, that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him. ”

- Ernest Renan

“ 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

“ Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves. ”

- Ernest Renan

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

- Ernest Renan

“ Communism is in conflict with human nature. ”

- Ernest Renan

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

- Ernest Renan

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

- 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

“ Communism is in conflict with human nature. ”

- Ernest Renan

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

- 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

“ A nation is a body of people who have done great things together. ”

- Ernest Renan

“ All history is incomprehensible without Christ. ”

- Ernest Renan

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ Communism is in conflict with human nature. ”

- Ernest Renan

“ Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves. ”

- Ernest Renan

“ Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves. ”

- Ernest Renan

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

- 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. ”

- Ernest Renan

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

- Ernest Renan

“ Work is the best thing to make us love life. ”

- Ernest Renan

“ The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. ”

- Ernest Renan

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

- Ernest Renan

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

- Ernest Renan

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

- Ernest Renan

“ 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

“ 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
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