Ernest Renan Quotes & Sayings

“Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.”

“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 life.”

“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.”

“God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.”

“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.”

“Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.”

“All history is incomprehensible without Christ.”

“When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.”

“Man makes holy what he believes.”