About Ernest Renan:
Joseph Ernest Renan is best known for his influential historical works on early Christianity, and his political theories, especially concerning nationalism and national identity. Renan is credited as being among the first scholars to advance the Khazar theory, which held that Ashkenazi Jews were descendants of Turkic peoples who had adopted Jewish religion and migrated to Western Europe following the collapse of their khanate.
All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.
Ernest RenanWhen people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
Ernest Renan