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“Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Thinking #Opinion #Fixed
“Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Beauty #Beautiful #Believe
“Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service one can render him.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Men #Practice #Numbers
“Muslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!”
-- Ernest Renan

#Islam #Firsts #Victim
“The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Life #Education #Teaching
“Communism is in conflict with human nature.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Conflict #Human Nature #Communism
“True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Christian #Writing #Rocks
“No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Struggle #Sacrifice #Ideas
“Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Race #Soldier #Rebel
“The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Travel #Home #Ignorance
“Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Life #Sorrow #Remember
“I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Death #Wish #Dying
“The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."”
-- Ernest Renan

#Prayer #If There Is A God #Soul
“When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Life #People #Complaining
“The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Lying #Creating #History
“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 #Men #May
“The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Greatness #Men
“Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Happiness #Joy #Mind
“To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Freedom #Writing #Men
“The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Men #Virtue #Proof
“Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Errors #People #Religion
“The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Men #Obedience #He Man
“The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Epic #Age #Heroism
“Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Jobs #Work #Relax
“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 this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Religious #Sacrifice #Men
“Work is the best thing to make us love life.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Work #Love Life
“Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government . That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse. A great social revolution, in which rank will be overturned, in which all authority in this world will be humiliated, was his dream .”
-- Ernest Renan

#Dream #Jesus #Government
“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 out as being of the elect.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Suffering #Comfort #May
“Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Compassion #Cities #Land
“It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.”
-- Ernest Renan

#Christian #Jesus #Taken

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