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Letter "E" » Ernest Renan Quotes
«No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.»
«God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul»
«The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.»
Author: Ernest Renan
(Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Liberty,
Progress
| Keywords:
individual liberty, postulate, postulates
«When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.»
«Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves»
«Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.»
Author: Ernest Renan
(Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
expressed, instinctive, popular, sensed
«Communism is in conflict with human nature.»
«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.»
«To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these are the essential conditions which make up a people»
Author: Ernest Renan
(Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Glory,
Past,
People,
The Present
| Keywords:
essential condition, glories
«The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.»
Author: Ernest Renan
(Historian, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Archimedes, sacrificed, schoolboy, schoolboys, simplest
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