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    Ernest Renan

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    What is human life? Is it not a maimed happiness—care and weariness, weariness and care, with the baseless expectation...of a brighter tomorrow? ↗


    — Ernest Renan

    #life

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


    — Ernest Renan

    #always #asked #because #complain #impossible

    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. ↗


    — Ernest Renan

    #heroism #imbeciles #lack #lost #maintain

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


    — Ernest Renan

    #fixed #opinions #our #point #stop

    All history is incomprehensible without Christ. ↗


    — Ernest Renan

    #history #incomprehensible #without

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


    — Ernest Renan

    #accomplished #been #great #great things #humanity

    Communism is in conflict with human nature. ↗


    — Ernest Renan

    #conflict #human #human nature #nature

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


    — Ernest Renan

    #i #my soul #soul #take

    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. ↗


    — Ernest Renan

    #among #apart #being #god #marked

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


    — Ernest Renan

    #blessed #blind #enough #know #why






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    Writing in the midst of the dispute concerning the Alsace-Lorraine region he declared that the existence of a nation was based on a "daily plebiscite. One of his greatest admirers was Manuel González Prada in Peru who took the Life of Jesus as a basis for his anticlericalism.

    Joseph Ernest Renan (28 February 1823 – 2 October 1892) was a French expert of Middle East ancient languages and civilizationsphilosopher and writer devoted to his native province of Brittany. He is best known for his influential historical works on early Christianity and his political theories especially concerning nationalism and national identity.

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