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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.


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



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



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



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



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



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





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