Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

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• The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Words
  • Question
  • Goal

• For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Done
  • Me
  • Cool

• If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Religious
  • Dangerous

• But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

  

  Little Richard
  • Singing
  • Singers
  • Loud

• The problems of this world are so gigantic that some are paralysed by their own uncertainty. Courage and wisdom are needed to reach out above this sense of helplessness. Desire for vengeance against deeds of hatred offers no solution. An eye for an eye makes the world blind. If we wish to choose the other path, we will have to search for ways to break the spiral of animosity. To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans.

  

  Beatrix of the Netherlands
  • World
  • Desire
  • Wish

• Drugs? Every one has a choice and I choose not to do drugs.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Choice
  • Drugs

• In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

  

  Louis Nizer
  • Funny
  • Water
  • Fishing

• The hand of the wicked can't stir one moment before God allows them to begin, and...one moment after God commands them to stop.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Stop
  • Hand

• Life with three daughters can be nerve-wracking, but it's amazing to be loved by so many different women.

  

  Laird Hamilton
  • Life
  • Different
  • Women

• Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.

  

  Don McLean
  • Dry
  • American Pie
  • Levees

• I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can't understand each other. It's also usually my experience of being in America - when I speak no one can understand what I'm saying.

  

  Ben Wheatley
  • People
  • Experience
  • America

• Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartednes s and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Great
  • Help
  • Respect

• I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.

  

  Haile Gerima
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

  

  Elizabeth Smart
  • Live
  • Health
  • Pain

• The first lesson my kids got about the ocean was to respect it. You can never turn your back on the ocean when you're dealing with tides and currents - factors beyond your control. You have to be the CEO of your family on the water. CEO stands for 'constant eyes on,' and it's something I never forget.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Control

• Our civilization represses not only "the instincts", not only sexuality, but any form of transcendence. Among one-dimensional men, it is not surprising that someone with an insistent experience of other dimensions, that he cannot entirely deny or forget, will run the risk either of being destroyed by the others, or of betraying what he knows.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Risk

• A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Nature
  • Star
  • Destiny

• In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.

  

  Alveda King
  • Life
  • World
  • Together

• You're not going to do something for a certain period of your life and be affected by it, and then stop and go work in a grocery store. You understand certain things and your personality changes.

  

  Jill Flint
  • Personality
  • Certain
  • Groceries

• I would rather do things that I really love with people that I love working with, and to be able to extend that and go and play, it's great. I feel very fortunate.

  

  Nigel Timothy Godrich Atoms for Peace
  • People
  • Play
  • Feels

• Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Philosophy
  • Genius
  • Consequence

• To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Certain
  • Able
  • Consequence