Quotes by Renan, Ernest

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever es >>

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life. >>

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

Quotations about Jesus Christ

A lot of people say to me, Why did you kill Christ? I dunno... it was >>

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the >>

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's t >>

Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.

Renan, Ernest