Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.
Ernest GellnerNowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a glorious and luminous reality. Just how it was achieved remains subject to debate.
Ernest GellnerPeople are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.
Ernest Gellner