Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
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
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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
Gary Ackerman
Let who will scoff and revile – I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonders which have been shown to me by the Lord, who knew all things even before the time of this world, many years before, just as they happened.
Saint Patrick
In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.
Taryn Simon
'My God, oh my God,' he said. 'Six hundred men.'
Patrick O'Brian
Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.
Leo Strauss
As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.
Aung San Suu Kyi
I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.
Jewel Kilcher
I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
Donald Ray Pollock
The bigger you become of a celebrity, the bigger the expectations, the pressure on you - to make change, to say what people want, to target the people they want to target. Fame is toxic; it is quite toxic.
Bassem Youssef
In the modern desktop environment, with multitasking and alerts and constant activity, there are always more distractions. When you're at a computer, your hands are always on the controls.
Marco Arment
'Isn’t there any way-' He broke off. Can’t the past be altered? he asked himself. Evidently not. Cause and effect work in only one direction, and change is real. So what’s gone is gone, and I might as well get out of here.
Philip K. Dick
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
