Ernest Renan Quotes

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Woe to him who becomes useless to human progress!

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

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

The oblivion, and I'll say even the historical error, are a key factor in the creation of a nation, to the extent that the progress of historical studies is often a danger to nationality.

Islam has been liberal when it has been weak and violent when it has been strong.