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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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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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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Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.
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Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.
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These women need to feel that we're all aware of what they may be going through, to give them the confidence to speak out.
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Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets us, come out in the end in better shape than the glib and ready reproducer, its passions being deeper, its purposes more worthy, its combining power less commonplace, and its total mental output consequently more important.
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The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.
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The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.
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Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.
