Enlightenment Quote by Ernest Gellner Download Open image “I am a humble adherent of...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.” — Ernest Gellner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Enlightenment Fundamentalism Humble Humility
I'm not a fundamentalist, though I'm fundamental in all of my doctrine. — Bill Bright Copy Share Image
I count myself a a rationalist and a skeptic with a very conscious awareness of my indebtedness to Western Christian civilization, and I am… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own;… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“for the purposes of my own spirituality, it is far more useful to recognize the limitations of my knowledge; to humble myself, not before… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism fills you with answers before you even think to ask the questions. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“anyone reared by fundamentalist parents deserves credit for the exceptional struggle from indoctrination to enlightenment.” — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
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 and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share
The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“One persistent attempt to find a thread in the history of mankind focuses on the notion of Reason. Human history, on this view, is the unfolding of rationality. Human thought, institutions, social organization, become progressively more rational. The idea that Reason is the goal or end-point of the development of mankind can fuse with the view that it also constitutes… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share
It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely,… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular,… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.” — Grace Sara Copy Share Image
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I think enlightenment is something that you decide to do after you have met someone who is enlightened. Something touches your heart, your being… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment. — Dharma Mittra Copy Share Image
The enlightened attention rejects nothing nor welcomes anything-like a mirror it responds equally to all. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Perhaps a creature of so much ingenuity and deep memory is almost bound to grow alienated from his world, his fellows, and the objects around him. He suffers from a nostalgia for which there is no remedy upon earth except as it is to be found in the enlightenment of the spirit--some ability to have a perceptive rather than an… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share
The holy grail is right here in this gem of a book. Tosha Silver’s wisdom goes down as easy as a mint milkshake and… — Lissa Rankin Copy Share Image
