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A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
— Ernest Gellner
People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.
— Ernest Gellner
I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.
— Tracey Ullman
Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist ...
— Ernest Gellner
I used to call myself a war photographer. Now I consider myself as an antiwar photographer.
— James Nachtwey
The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.
— Ernest Gellner
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.
— Ernest Gellner
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
— Honore De Balzac
Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society.
— 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.
— Ernest Gellner
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In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north.
— Ellsworth Huntington
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
— Anonymous
America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.
— Ernest Gellner
There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Capital, like capitalism, seems an overrated category.
— Ernest Gellner
Javier Chevanton don't speak the language too good.
— Kevin Bond
