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Man makes holy what he believes.
— Ernest Renan
When you are some-'one', why would you wish to be some-'thing'?
— Gustave Flaubert
You can't change your attitude because you're the champion. I've always kept my feet on the ground and never wanted to change.
— Renan Barao
Defeat is only a defeat when we don't learn anything.
— Renan Barao
I'm a natural born sniper.
— Renan Barao
Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.
— Ernest Renan
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
— Ernest Renan
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
— Ernest Renan
Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.
— Ernest Renan
I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
— Ernest Renan
Fanatics fear liberty more than they fear persecution.
— Ernest Renan
The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."
— Ernest Renan
A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.
— Ernest Renan
Woe to him who becomes useless to human progress!
— Ernest Renan
Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.
— Ernest Renan
To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.
— Ernest Renan
Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.
— Ernest Renan
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.
— Ernest Renan
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
— Ernest Renan
The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.
— Ernest Renan
All history is incomprehensible without Christ.
— Ernest Renan
It is good for everyone to know how to forget.
— Ernest Renan
History is as much an art as a science.
— Ernest Renan
Work is the best thing to make us love life.
— Ernest Renan
The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.
— Ernest Renan
As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before 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
God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.
— Ernest Renan
The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.
— 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
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
— Ernest Renan
Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.
— Ernest Renan
All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
— Ernest Renan
It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism ...
— Ernest Renan
Communism is in conflict with human nature.
— Ernest Renan