Ernest Renan Quotes

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value w...

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

Islam has been liberal when it has been weak and violent when it has been strong.

Woe to him who becomes useless to human progress!

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

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

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

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

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

The oblivion, and I'll say even the historical error, are a key factor in the creation of a nation, ...