The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
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When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.Ernest Renan
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
Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal
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Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
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Man makes holy what he believes.
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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
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