Ernest Renan Quotes
Top 41 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ernest Renan
Ernest Renan Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Ernest Renan on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.
What is human life? Is it not a maimed happiness - care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation...of a brighter tomorrow?
To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.
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.
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.
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.
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism ...