4 Ernest Renan Quotes on Belief

Ernest Renan quotes on belief

7. 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?

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

12. Man makes holy what he believes.

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