Ernest Gellner Quotes

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.

Ernest Gellner

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• We are seeing a great awakening. A national movement of We the People, brought together by what unites us - a shared love of liberty, and an understanding of the unlimited potential of free men and free women.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Movement
  • Potential

• One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Beautiful
  • Passion
  • Sense

• Nationalism and anti-nationalism is a matter of perception. You cannot mandate who is a nationalist and what is not.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • You
  • Perception
  • Nationalism

• The fueling of anti-Turkish sentiment in Europe is resulting in an anti-European, indiscriminate nationalism in Turkey.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Europe
  • Nationalism
  • Turkey

• Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Old
  • Empires
  • Nationalism

• His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Great
  • Lose
  • Consciousness

• Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Way
  • Consciousness

• Healing is awakening to the perfection that already is ours.

  

  Baird T. Spalding
  • Healing
  • Perfection
  • Awakening

• I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Good
  • Worry
  • Consciousness

• There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Country
  • Moments

• I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I've found that just surviving is a noble fight. I once believed in causes too; I had my pointless points of view. And life went on no matter who as wrong or right.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Age

• From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is more a reflection of the consciousness of mankind than the consciousness of mankind is a reflection of world events.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Perspective
  • Reflection

• The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Real
  • Consciousness

• There is no such thing as a faithless person; we either have faith in the power of love, or faith in the power of fear. For faith is an aspect of consciousness. Have faith in love, and fear will lose its power over you. Have faith in forgiveness, and your self-hatred will fall away. Have faith in miracles, and they will come to you.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Faith

• I don't believe there are any powers, which in the larger sense, are unnatural or even supernatural. I think we just do not yet scientifically understand all of the powers inherent in the human consciousness, and the more attuned we are to the realm of spirit, the more our conscious mind is available to subconscious, spiritual prompting.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Spiritual

• In the century now dawning, spirituality, visionary consciousness, and the ability to build and mend human relationships will be more important for the fate and safety of this nation than our capacity to forcefully subdue an enemy. Creating the world we want is a much more subtle but more powerful mode of operation than destroying the one we don't want.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Important
  • Powerful

• The adept may reach one of those rare moments that spell illumination -- aware of the light of the consciousness that illumines our consciousness as the sun dawns on the sleeping earth and bathes it in effulgence.

  

  Pir Vilayat Khan
  • Earth
  • Sleep
  • Consciousness

• Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union

  

  Francois Mitterrand
  • War
  • Arguing
  • Nationalism

• Man’s consciousness not only reflects the objective world, but creates it.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • World
  • Men
  • Consciousness

• The bourgeoisie, which far surpasses the proletariat in the completeness and irreconcilibility of its class consciousness, is vitally interested in imposing its moral philosophy upon the exploited masses. It is exactly for this purpose that the concrete norms of the bourgeois catechism are concealed under moral abstractions...The appeal to abstract norms is not a disinterested philosophic mistake but a necessary element in the mechanics of class deception.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Mistake
  • Philosophy
  • Consciousness

• Consciousness does matter. Matter is secondary. Consciousness is primary. Brain does not do consciousness, consciousness does the brain.

  

  Amit Goswami
  • Brain
  • Matter
  • Consciousness

• I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

  

  Hector Elizondo
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Deli

• Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.

  

  Ernest Gellner
  • Consciousness
  • Nationalism
  • Awakening