Ernest Gellner Quotes
Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.
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Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
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I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
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We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.
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I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.
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Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
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Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!
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I don't seek the counsel of God. God doesn't speak to me on what I should or shouldn't do.
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I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
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The fact that the internet is so active; people can now speak to me indirectly.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
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Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
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If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.
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He was too good to be Where ill men were, and was the best of all Amongst the rar'st of good ones- sitting sadly Hearing us praise our loves of Italy For beauty that made barren the swell'd boast Of him that best could speak; for feature, laming The shrine of Venus or straight-pight Minerva, Postures beyond brief nature; for condition, A shop of all the qualities that man Loves woman for; besides that hook of wiving, Fairness which strikes the eye- CYMBELINE.
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I much prefer touring to anything else. Studio work is great, and can be hugely satisfying, but live work has the excitement and the lifestyle that I love.
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Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
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If you want to cut down a tree, it is no use to climb into its branches.
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Console-toi, tu ne me chercherais pas si tu ne m'avais trouve. Comfort yourself. You would not seek me if you had not found me.
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Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.
