A man must have a nationality as he must have a nose and two ears. [...] All this seems obvious, though, alas, it is not true.
Nations and nationalism - Página 6 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=XPHpUSUAsF0C&pg=PA6, Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly - Cornell University Press, 2008, ISBN 0801475007, 9780801475009 - 152 páginas
Ernest Gellner Frases famosas
1756): de um lado a aliança Anglo-Austríaca, do outro a Franco-Prussiana. Muscovy (actual Rússia) e os estados e principados da área mediterrânica tendem a estar alinhados com o eixo Paris-Berlim, enquanto que o lado escandinavo luta pelo campo oposto. Encontramos Polacos de distinção em ambos os lados.
The Plough, the Sword and the Book, 1990
De "Reason and Culture: The historic role of rationality and rationalism", 1992.
De "The Coming of Nationalism and Its Interpretation: The Myths of Nation and Class in Mapping the Nation"
De "Plough, Sword and Book", 1988
de Reason and Culture, Oxford 1992, p. 3.
Anthropology and Politics, 1995
Citações de vida de Ernest Gellner
Michael Lessnoff, Ernest Gellner and Modernity, 2002
Ernest Gellner: Frases em inglês
Plough, Sword, and Book : The Structure of Human History (1988), Ch. 5 : Codification, p. 123
Plough, Sword, and Book: The Structure of Human History (1988)