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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.»
«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.»
«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
«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