God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.
"Joseph Ernest Renan" was a French expert of Middle East ancient languages and civilizations, philosopher and writer, devoted to his native province of Brittany. He is best known for his influential historical works on early Christianity and his political theory/political theories, especially concerning nationalism and national identity. Renan is credited as being among the first scholars to advance the Khazar theory, which held that Ashkenazi Jews were descendants of Turkic peoples who had adopted Jewish religion and migrated to Western Europe following the collapse of their khanate.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous philosophers! More Ernest Renan on Wikipedia.The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
Communism is in conflict with human nature.
To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together; to wish to do greater; these are the essential conditions which make up a people.
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
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