Ernest Renan

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Reproduction of the original: Origins of Christianity by Ernest Renan

Reproduction of the original: Origins of Christianity by Ernest Renan

Reproduction of the original: Recollections of my Youth by Ernest Renan

Reproduction of the original: Recollections of my Youth by Ernest Renan

" Le premier devoir de l'homme sinc re est de ne pas influer sur ses propres opinions, de laisser la r alit se refl ter en lui comme en la chambre noire du photographe, et d'assister en spectateur aux batailles int rieures que se livrent les id es au fond de sa conscience. On ne doit pas intervenir dans ce travail spontan ; devant les modifications internes de notre r tine intellectuelle, nous devons rester passifs. Non que le r sultat de l' volution inconsciente nous soit indiff rent et qu'il ne doive entra ner de graves cons quences; mais nous n'avons pas le droit d'avoir un d sir, quand la raison parle; nous devons couter, rien de plus; pr ts nous laisser tra ner pieds et poings li s o les meilleurs arguments nous entra nent. La production de la v rit est un ph nom ne objectif, tranger au moi, qui se passe en nous sans nous, une sorte de pr cipit chimique que nous devons nous contenter de regarder avec curiosit . De temps en temps, il est bon de s'arr ter, de se recueillir en quelque sorte, pour voir en quoi la fa on dont on envisage le monde a pu se modifier, quelle marche, dans l' chelle de la probabilit la certitude, ont pu suivre les propositions dont on a fait la base de sa vie..."