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“Renan gerçekten de din yoluyla bilime geçmiş, kendi yüzyılı için gerçek "bilim dini"ni yaratmıştır. İnanç onda ölmemiştir, konu değiştirmiştir: Hakikat, onun bilmediği bir kültün yeni tanrısı olmuştur; bu kült, Akıl ve Bilginin kültüdür. Hiç kimsenin bunu keşfetmek için metinleri incelemesine gerek yoktur: Renan her sayfada bu rasyonalist "amentü"yü patlatır, onunla tüm kanılar özetler ve söyler.”

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Book:Qu'est-ce qu'une nation?
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“Ce qui distingue, en effet, Jésus des agitateurs de son temps et de ceux de tous les siècles, c’est son parfait idéalisme. Jésus, à quelques égards, est un anarchiste, car il n’a aucune idée du gouvernement civil. Ce gouvernement lui semble purement et simplement un abus. Il en parle en termes vagues et à la façon d’une personne du peuple qui n’a aucune idée de politique. Tout magistrat lui paraît un ennemi naturel des hommes de Dieu ; il annonce à ses disciples des démêlés avec la police, sans songer un moment qu’il y ait là matière à rougir. Mais jamais la tentative de se substituer aux puissants et aux riches ne se montre chez lui. Il veut anéantir la richesse et le pouvoir, mais non s’en emparer. Il prédit à ses disciples des persécutions et des supplices; mais pas une seule fois la pensée d’une résistance armée ne se laisse entrevoir. L’idée qu’on est tout-puissant par la souffrance et la résignation, qu’on triomphe de la force par la pureté du coeur, est bien une idée propre de Jésus. Jésus n’est pas un spiritualiste ; car tout aboutit pour lui à une réalisation palpable ; il n’a pas la moindre notion d’une âme séparée du corps. Mais c’est un idéaliste accompli, la matière n’étant pour lui que le signe de l’idée, et le réel l’expression vivante de ce qui ne paraît pas.”

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Book:Life of Jesus
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“To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.”

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Author:Ernest Renan
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“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.”

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Book:The Life of Jesus: Works of Renan
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“The only way of salvation for the world is by returning to thy allegiance.... Firm in my faith, I shall have force to withstand my evil counsellors, my skepticism, which leads me to doubt of the people, my restless spirit which, after truth has been brought to light, impels to go on searching for it.”

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Book:Recollections of My Youth
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“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.”

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Book:The Life of Jesus
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