Best Ernest Renan Quotes
- History is as much an art as a science. Art
- Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him! Best
- A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich… Common
- 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… Battle
- The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery. Age
- The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands. Always Better
- Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people. Error
- The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God. God
- Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one. Different One
- To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than… Act
- 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… Among
- Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking. Become Fixed
- The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. Archimedes
- To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes. Able
- Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation. Funny
- Communism is in conflict with human nature. Communism
- Man makes holy what he believes. Believes
- 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… Abundant
- God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul. God