You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.
More Quotes by Ernest Renan
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.
Man is not on this earth merely to be happy, or even to be simply honest. He is there to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility and to surmount the vulgarity of almost everybody.
Communism is in conflict with human nature.
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.