“we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.”
“we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.”
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“ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion”
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“It is probably safe to say that in strongly hierarchical societies the only people to whom something approaching nationalist sentiments can be attributed in pre-modern times is the ruling elite, and then only at times.”
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“One can be deeply influenced by people to whom one is utterly hostile”
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