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All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
Communism is in conflict with human nature.
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.
I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.... (more Ernest Renan quotes)
| Four Reasonable Men: Marcus Aurelius, John Stuart Mill, Ernest Renan, Henry Sidgwick by Brand Blanshard | |
| The Philosophy Of Ernest Renan by Herman G. A. Brauer | |
| Life of Ernest Renan by Francis Espinasse |
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