A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak. - Ernest Gellner
Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.
- Ernest Gellner
People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing. - Ernest Gellner
People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.
The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry. - Ernest Gellner
The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.
In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in part… - Ernest Gellner
In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in part…
I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech … - Ernest Gellner
I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech …
Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism. - Ernest Gellner
Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.
Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can… - Ernest Gellner
Industrial Society is not merely one containing 'industry,' large-scale productive units capable of supplying man's material needs in a way which can…
Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category. - Ernest Gellner
Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.
I am a humble adherent of...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism. - Ernest Gellner
I am a humble adherent of...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.
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