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.
Source: Last lines of L'Avenir de la Science (1890; repr. in Oeuvres Compl?tes, vol. 3).
-- Ernest Renan, (Feb 28 1823-1892), French philosopher, historian, scholar; He was a leader of the school of critical philosophy in France.