"A cleric who loses his faith abandons his……" — Ernest Gellner
"A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject."
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Ernest Gellner
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11 Quotes by Ernest Gellner
Ernest Gellner has 11 quotes on this site.
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It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.
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I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my…
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Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.
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The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of…
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People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.
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Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its…
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Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but,…
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Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less,…
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America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.
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Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist...
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More Abandon Quotes
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for…
— Teresa of Avila
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The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
— Abu Bakr
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When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon…
— Javier Bardem
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance…
— Gary Bauer
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Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration,…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
— George W. Bush
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I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign…
— David Byrne
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To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the…
— Albert Camus
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