--- title: "1 Obedience Law Quotes By Ernest Renan" description: "1 Obedience Law quotes by Ernest Renan. Plus more from Ernest Renan and more Obedience Law sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90c/ernest-renan-11034_battle_morality-has-been-conceived-up-to-the-pr_2622586.jpg" --- > [Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws. As for me, I declare that when I do good I obey no one, I fight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-renan/morality-has-been-conceived-up-to-the-present-in-a-very-narrow-spirit/) [Ernest Renan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-renan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/90c/ernest-renan-11034_battle_morality-has-been-conceived-up-to-the-pr_2622586.jpg) ## More by Ernest Renan > [The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-renan/the-prayer-of-the-agnostic-o-god-if-there-is-a-god-save-my-soul-if-i/) [Ernest Renan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-renan/) > [The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-renan/the-epic-disappeared-along-with-the-age-of-personal-heroism-there-can/) [Ernest Renan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-renan/) > [Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-renan/muslims-are-the-first-victims-of-islam-to-liberate-a-muslim-from-his/) [Ernest Renan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-renan/) > [It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-renan/it-is-evident-indeed-that-such-a-doctrine-taken-by-itself-in-a/) [Ernest Renan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-renan/) > [A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-renan/a-nation-is-a-body-of-people-who-have-done-great-things-together/) [Ernest Renan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-renan/) > [Man is not on this earth merely to be happy, or even to be simply honest. He is there to realize great things for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-renan/man-is-not-on-this-earth-merely-to-be-happy-or-even-to-be-simply/) [Ernest Renan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-renan/) > [To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-renan/to-have-common-glories-in-the-past-a-common-will-in-the-present-to/) [Ernest Renan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-renan/) > [“To have done great things together, to want to do more, such are the essential conditions to form a people. . . . Man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-renan/to-have-done-great-things-together-to-want-to-do-more-such-are-the/) [Ernest Renan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-renan/as-a-rule-all-heroism-is-due-to-a-lack-of-reflection-and-thus-it-is/) [Ernest Renan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-renan/) > [None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-renan/none-of-the-miracles-with-which-ancient-histories-are-filled-occurred/) [Ernest Renan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-renan/) > [I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-renan/i-can-die-when-i-wish-to-that-is-my-elixir-of-life/) [Ernest Renan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-renan/) > [“Islam has been liberal when it has been weak and violent when it has been strong.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-renan/islam-has-been-liberal-when-it-has-been-weak-and-violent-when-it-has/) [Ernest Renan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-renan/) > [“What is human life? Is it not a maimed happiness—care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation...of a brighter tomorrow?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-renan/what-is-human-life-is-it-not-a-maimed-happiness-care-and-weariness/) [Ernest Renan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-renan/) > [Man makes holy what he believes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-renan/man-makes-holy-what-he-believes/) [Ernest Renan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-renan/) > [“Woe to him who becomes useless to human progress!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-renan/woe-to-him-who-becomes-useless-to-human-progress/) [Ernest Renan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-renan/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/obedience-law/ernest-renan/#itemlist", "name": "1 Obedience Law Quotes By Ernest Renan", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Morality has been conceived up to the present in a very narrow spirit, as obedience to a law, as inner struggle between opposite laws. 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