Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

Ernest Renan

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• Heroism
• Imbeciles

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• I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Night
  • City
  • Lights

• When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • She
  • Story
  • Find

• The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Up
  • Reason

• If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Men
  • Women
  • Adventure

• Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Mistake
  • Decisions
  • Congress

• Cannot keep you out my brain

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Brain

• 'What will they do when they have only the herbs' he asked her.'Live or die as best they can,' she said. 'Everything truly alive dies sooner or later.'

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Live
  • She
  • Die

• Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.

  

  Bob Barr
  • American
  • Beginning
  • Gun

• In the writers' room, when we talk about each episode, we first talk about the character journey of the episode.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Character
  • Journey

• For me, fashion begins in New York.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Fashion

• Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

  

  Nelson DeMille

• My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Women
  • Hope
  • Future

• I'm a pretty low-key North Carolina boy. I like to go fishing and hang out with my friends.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Friends
  • Pretty
  • Boy

• There is no law that says a campaign cannot accept information from a foreign government.

  

  Jeanine Pirro
  • Law

• Before Arthur, I'd dismissed altogether writing fiction. You only have so many semi-sharp arrows in your quiver, I'd told myself, and I was not going to be able to write a novel.

  

  Kevin Crossley-Holland
  • Writing

• It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what happened. We each have totally different ideas of what was said, what was intended, and what really took place.

  

  Marya Hornbacher
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Interesting

• The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Science

• I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'

  

  Eric Bana
  • Hate
  • Dad
  • Daughter

• By cooking with your kids, you can help them understand that food is a powerful tool in connecting human beings.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Food

• I do what I do because it seems to be critically missing in the world and I want to see it not-happen.

  

  Kalan Sherrard
  • World
  • Missing

• Sexiness comes with maturity.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Maturity

• How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Sex
  • Knows
  • Universal

• TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • People
  • Taken
  • Reflection

• As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Reflection
  • Heroism
  • Imbeciles