Ernest Renan

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.

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.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.