It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism.
Ernest RenanTrue Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology.
Ernest RenanAs 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.
Ernest RenanMuslims are the first victims of Islam. To liberate a Muslim from his religion is the best service that one can render him!
Ernest RenanWhen people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
Ernest RenanNever 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.
Ernest Renan