Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
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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.
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If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.
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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.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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The person who doubts there is an external world does not need proof: he needs a cure.
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There is explosive power in virtue.
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Virtue lives when Beauty dies.
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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!
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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."
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Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
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There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
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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.
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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.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.
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If you live on Nantucket, you can't avoid its history, and 'Moby Dick' is the way most of us get into Nantucket's history.
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In exorcism, a verbal argument can never do anything. You can't ever beat the entity in a verbal argument because that's what he wants. It's only through a confront, a non-verbal confront, that anything happens. It has to be non-verbal.
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There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.
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The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.
