Ernest Renan - People Quotes

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

Ernest Renan

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again—these are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

Ernest Renan

The only way of salvation for the world is by returning to thy allegiance.... Firm in my faith, I shall have force to withstand my evil counsellors, my skepticism, which leads me to doubt of the people, my restless spirit which, after truth has been brought to light, impels to go on searching for it...

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