Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.

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• A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.

  

  Han Fei
  • Law
  • Virtue
  • Himself

• If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Succeed
  • Possibilities
  • Proof

• To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • True
  • Hand
  • Virtue

• Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Beauty
  • Virtue
  • Mask

• Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Happiness
  • Virtue
  • Reward

• Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Virtue
  • Fame
  • Fortune

• The person who doubts there is an external world does not need proof: he needs a cure.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • World
  • Person
  • Cure

• There is explosive power in virtue.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Power
  • Virtue

• Virtue lives when Beauty dies.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Beauty
  • Virtue
  • Dies

• Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence."

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Christian
  • Marriage
  • Virtue

• Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Confidence
  • Gods
  • Proof

• The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.

  

  Aristotle
  • Know
  • Teach
  • Proof

• Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.

  

  Aristotle
  • Virtue
  • Extremes
  • Vice

• In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Matters

• The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

  

  Aristotle
  • Wisdom
  • Justice
  • Virtue

• Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

  

  Aristotle
  • Wisdom
  • Happiness
  • Virtue

• For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use.

  

  Aristotle
  • Know
  • Virtue
  • Order

• The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Wisdom
  • Philosophy

• Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

  

  Plato
  • Men
  • Arguments
  • Pretenders

• I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Life
  • Money
  • Know

• The next time you face a customer who has every right to be upset, say something like this: 'I don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were you, I'd feel exactly the same way. What would you like for me to do?' These are magical, healing words, and you'll be surprised at how reasonable people become when they believe you are on their side.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • World
  • Men
  • Missiles

• I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Question
  • Answer
  • Inward

• The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Virtue
  • Proof