To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.
Ernest Renan
To conceive the good, in ...
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To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.
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All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
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Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government . That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse. A great social revolution, in which rank will be overturned, in which all authority in this world will be humiliated, was his dream .
Ernest Renan
A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.
Ernest Renan
