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Ernest Renan Quotes

Best Quotes by Ernest Renan (Top 10)

  1. Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
  2. The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
  3. No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
  4. Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.
  5. A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.
  6. 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
  7. A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.
  8. 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.
  9. When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
  10. 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.

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