Quotes by Renan, Ernest

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority >>

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no >>

Man makes holy what he believes. >>

Quotations about Jesus Christ

Christianity takes for granted the absence of any self-help and offers >>

You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God. >>

Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improvise >>

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?

Renan, Ernest