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Ernest Renan
The simplest schoolboy...
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with facts for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his...
As a rule,...
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If...
Our opinions become...
Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
Source: In
No idea can...
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle...
When people complain...
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of...
In morals, truth...
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in...
You may take...
You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one...
He whom God...
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...
Man makes holy...
Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
Source: In...
To conceive the...
To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure...