Ernest Renan What Is A Nation Quotes

#1. Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. The thought: A logical inquiry

Gottlob Frege

#3. Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

Ernest Renan

#4. Real love is gritty. It sweats and waits, it causes you to hold your tongue when you want to scream obscenities in anger, and it causes many men to accomplish extraordinary feats.

Meg Meeker

#5. And you're apparently made of mountain. Are you sure you're an engineer and not a lumberjack?

Jenn Bennett

#6. People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.

A.P. Herbert

#7. 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.

Ernest Renan

#8. the famed French theorist Ernest Renan, who years ago defined the nation as "a group of people united in a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbors.

Reza Aslan

#9. 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.

Ernest Renan

#10. What she called the nastiness of life was the shock she received upon learning that nobody stopped playing checkers just because the pieces included her children.

Toni Morrison

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

Ernest Renan

#12. I've never really been a girly-girl.

Kate Winslet

#13. Mr. Starr, have you no shame? Facts and law are always subordinated to the will of the American people.

William H. Ginsburg

#14. Meditation doesn't lead to enlightenment because in meditation the ego is trying to destroy the ego.

Donald O'Donovan

#15. Also, in the category of 'obvious but still shocking,' an animal called a 'killer whale' killed someone who was trying to play with it. Now, no one knows exactly what enraged the whale, but earlier in the week, it had been thrown off a flight by Southwest Airlines.

Bill Maher

#16. Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.

Ernest Renan

#17. Joe Paterno left this world with a clear conscience,

Jay Paterno

#18. Be one of the best, or suffer like the rest.

Elizabeth White

#19. As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.

Tracy Chapman

#20. It is good for everyone to know how to forget.

Ernest Renan

#21. Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

Catherine The Great