Quote #13

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

More from Ernest Renan

  1. Man makes holy what he believes.
  2. The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
  3. Communism is in conflict with human nature.
  4. The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
  5. All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
  6. The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
  7. You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one ou…
  8. When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

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