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Quotes from Words and Things — Ernest Gellner

1925–1995 Czech Republic

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

Words and Things (1959)

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

Words and Things (1959)

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

Words and Things (1959)

The idea that some of the members of the smooth, bland variety of second generation of linguistic philosophers undergo ”perplexity”, let alone intellectual cramp, has an element of high comedy.

Words and Things (1959)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ernest Gellner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.