Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

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

Ernest Renan

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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
  • Proof

• There is explosive power in virtue.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Power
  • Virtue

• Virtue lives when Beauty dies.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Beauty
  • Virtue
  • Dies

• It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

  

  Emile Zola
  • Live
  • Women
  • She

• 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 the soul one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Virtue

• 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

• Humility is the mother of all virtues; purity, charity and obedience. It is in being humble that our love becomes real, devoted and ardent. If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are. If you are blamed you will not be discouraged. If they call you a saint you will not put yourself on a pedestal.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Virtue

• And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the book's outside, who ne'er look'd within?

  

  William Cowper
  • Sin
  • Common
  • Kissing

• You have to feel comfortable being uncomfortable. I'm always comfortable being uncomfortable. And to be comfortable being uncomfortable, I have to hone my discipline, which to me is doing what I have to do, but also doing it like I love it.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Live
  • Discipline
  • Comfortable

• It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.

  

  William Booth
  • Heart
  • Cold
  • Impossible

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

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Virtue
  • Proof