Joseph Ernest Renan citáty
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Joseph Ernest Renan
Datum narození: 28. únor 1823
Datum úmrtí: 2. říjen 1892
Další jména:Жозеф Эрнест Ренан
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Joseph Ernest Renan byl francouzský filosof, spisovatel, religionista, historik a jazykovědec, člen Francouzské akademie.
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francouzský spisovatel a filozofCitáty Joseph Ernest Renan
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„I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.“
— Ernest Renan
The Republic.<!--p. 154-->
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„To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.“
— Ernest Renan
Letter to his elder sister Henriette (1841).
„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.“
— Ernest Renan
Saint Sulpice and the Hidden God.<!--p. 24-->
„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?“
— Ernest Renan
Ch. 17.
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„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.“
— Ernest Renan
Oeuvres Complètes, vol. 3. L’Avenir de la Science (1890).
„Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.“
— Ernest Renan
Ch. 5.
