Ernest Renan - Truth 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

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 out as being of the elect.

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In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

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Science has no enemies save those who consider truth as useless and making no difference, and those who granting to truth its priceless value profess to get at it by other roads than those of criticism and rational investigation.

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The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

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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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