Quotes by Ernest Renan

Ernest Renan

A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.

Fall

Moments

Mountain

A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.

Memories

Peace

Spiritual

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

Done

People

Together

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

Christ

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

Humanity

Names

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.

Atheism

Men

Reflection

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

Horizon

Limits

Sacrifice

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

Blessed

Blind

Enough

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Communism

Conflict

Human Nature

Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life … The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave’s prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

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Rebel

Soldier

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Quotes by Ernest Renan

Ernest Renan

A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.

A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

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.

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

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

Communism is in conflict with human nature.

Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life … The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave’s prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

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