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

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Source : Ernest Gellner (1979). “Legitimation of Belief”, p.99, CUP Archive

Ernest Gellner

#Men Quotes #People Quotes

“A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.”
“All things as they move toward God are beautiful, and they are ugly as they move away from Him.”
“Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.”
“One of the worst things you can give to your people is someone you're not.”
“I think it's important to understand Shari'a to be rooted in history - what we know about the history and what we don't know about the history. So then, if people want to argue, at least they're arguing from the same point and we know what we know, and we know what we don't know.”
“Noble fathers have noble children.”
“Dan Brister's book bears witness to the last fifteen years of this bureaucratic madness to tame the last vestige of wild America and domesticate the earth. Leading the resistance is the Buffalo Field Campaign, a brave, dedicated group of activists. This hardy tribe lives out in the cold winters of Yellowstone, risking their freedom and lives to stand by their brown brethren in the hair coats.”
“I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.”

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