Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.

Ernest Renan

• World
• Earth
• Desire
• Religious
• Humanity
• Sacrifice
• Honest
• Realizing

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• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Dedication
  • Soviet

• I like to eat right and in moderation, but give myself treats and kind of have everything.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Kind
  • Myself
  • Give

• I go round and round in circles, really, really fast, on a big wooden bowl.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Big
  • Fast
  • Circles

• I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Man
  • Opportunity
  • Smile

• I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. That's not what I grew up around.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • Music
  • Myself

• Make your office comfortable for you, and optionally comfortable for others.

  

  Randy Pausch

• Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Work
  • Money

• I don't really have any big plans for 2008.

  

  Carrie Underwood

• Everyone has some sort of connection to mental illness.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Connection

• Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children - and the next day, it's completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that's when I had to man up.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Up
  • Children
  • Family

• I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Art
  • Hate
  • Habit

• You can't shelter it. You can't hide it. You have to let people know what you're going through, what you're feeling, what you think you have that's a problem.

  

  Eric Davis
  • People
  • Feeling

• Terrorism, as a whole, is - I don't want to say 'taboo,' but it is a very emotional subject.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Emotional

• I'm just not entirely sure how to gauge the faddiness of the Internet.

  

  Audrey MacLean

• I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Work
  • Guy

• They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

  

  Kevin Kwan
  • Writing
  • Truth

• If someone has something they're really passionate about, that's their brilliance, and my big question is how do we grow that passion/brilliance and/or help them grow.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Help
  • Question
  • Passion

• The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Life
  • Best
  • Adventure

• 'Outsiders,' I guess, is sort of dark, but I don't really think of it as dark. The world up there on that mountain, it had the potential to have a lot of fun as well as a lot of drama, these guys raiding the town in their ATVs with their tattoos. It seemed like something different.

  

  David Morse
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around you. You lead from weakness into strength; you have an undefended back.

  

  John le Carre
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• You just can't let the outside world affect your game.You can't hold anything back. You can't play a different game.

  

  Carson Palmer
  • World
  • Different
  • Play

• To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • World
  • Earth
  • Desire