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Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.
Fanatics fear liberty more than they fear persecution.
The ignorance of French society gives one a rough sense of the infinite.
The oblivion, and I'll say even the historical error, are a key factor in the creation of a nation, to the extent that the progress of historical studies is often a danger to nationality.
O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul...
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 .
A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage.
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
His glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing that the whole of history is incomprehensible without him.
Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.
It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism ...
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.
All history is incomprehensible without Christ.
Woe to him who becomes useless to human progress!
It is good for everyone to know how to forget.
A grain of sand leads to the fall of a mountain when the moment has come for the mountain to fall.
None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in periods and countries in which they are believed in and before persons disposed to believe in them.
He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.
The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.
I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath.
Islam has been liberal when it has been weak and violent when it has been strong.
Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.
God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.
Never has any one been less a priest than Jesus, never a greater enemy of forms, which stifle religion under the pretext of protecting it. By this we are all his disciples and his successors; by this he has laid the eternal foundation-stone of true religion; and if religion is essential to humanity, he has by this deserved the Divine rank the world has accorded him.
True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology.
The virtue of man is, in a word, the great proof of God.
Man makes holy what he believes.
Work is the best thing to make us love life.
In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.
The man who obeys is nearly always better than the man who commands.
Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah."
Relax yourself from one job by doing a different one.
