Zitat des Tages von Ernest Renan:
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.
All history is incomprehensible without Christ.
As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.
God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.
Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.
The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.
No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.
When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.
