Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

Ernest Renan

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• Our best thoughts come from others.

  

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• Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

  

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• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

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• The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

  

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• Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.

  

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• She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

  

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• For me the only training in Swaraj we need is the ability to defend ourselves against the whole world and to live our natural life in perfect freedom, even though it may be full of defects. Good government is no substitute for self-government.

  

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• Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

  

  Ernest Renan
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