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Ernest Renan Quotes

1823–1892 France

Ernest Renan (February 28, 1823 – October 12, 1892) was a French philosopher, playwright, historian, and writer.

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Also known as: Joseph Ernest Renan, Renan, Renan, Ernest

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To write well is to think well; there is no art of style distinct from the culture of the mind.

Attributed The Art of Authorship (1890)

Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation

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No place in the world has had a comparable role to that of the nameless mountain or valley where mankind first attained self-consciousness. Let us be proud … of the old patriarchs who, at the foot of Imaiis, laid the foundations of what we are and of what we shall become.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ernest Renan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.