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Getting its history wrong is p...

Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

None of the miracles with whic...

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.

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

Jesus was the greatest religio...

Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

No idea can succeed except at ...

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

As soon as sacrifice becomes a...

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

The greatest men of a nation a...

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

Man makes holy what he believe...

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

Good humor is a philosophic st...

Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us.

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

The talent of historians lies ...

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

Our opinions become fixed at t...

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

The simplest schoolboy is now ...

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

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

He whom God has touched will a...

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.

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

When people complain of life, ...

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

In morals, truth is but little...

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.

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

The prayer of the agnostic: '...

The prayer of the agnostic: 'O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul.'

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

Human cruelty took the form of...

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.

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

It is evident, indeed, that su...

It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

Sometimes they reasoned thus: ...

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.'

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

I can die when I wish to: that...

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

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

Every rebel is, with us, more ...

Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

Ernest Renan 72 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....