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Ernest Gellner quotes: A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

Ernest Gellner quotes: People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

Ernest Gellner quotes: Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist ...

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist ...

Ernest Gellner quotes: Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.

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 quotes: Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

Ernest Gellner quotes: Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.

Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.

Ernest Gellner quotes: It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

Ernest Gellner quotes: America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

Ernest Gellner quotes: The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

Ernest Gellner quotes: [I am a humble adherent of] ... Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.

[I am a humble adherent of] ... Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.

Ernest Gellner quotes: Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.

Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.

Ernest Gellner quotes: Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.

Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.

Ernest Gellner quotes: Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.