Ernest Renan

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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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

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Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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Man makes holy what he believes. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed. ↗

— Ernest Renan

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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

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