Ernest Renan Quotes on Belief
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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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All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
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Man makes holy what he believes.
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Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.