"People are even more reluctant to admit that……" — Ernest Gellner

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

— Ernest Gellner

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11 Quotes by Ernest Gellner

Ernest Gellner has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.
I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my…
A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.
The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of…
Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its…
Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but,…
Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less,…
America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.
Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist...

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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. — Diane Ackerman
I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing Jazz whether I like it or not. — Lester Bangs
We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to… — Dave Barry
I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do… — Glenn Beck
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took… — Kate Beckinsale
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better… — Erma Bombeck
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United… — Bono
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. — Daniel Boone

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