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Ernest Renan Quotes

«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?»
«The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands»
«Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.»
«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 soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.»
«O Lord - if there is a Lord; save my soul - if I have a soul»
«All history is incomprehensible without Christ»
«All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.»
«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.»
«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.»

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