Antonio Gramsci Quotes

The crisis creates situations which are dangerous in the short run, since the various strata of the ...

Possibility means "freedom". The measure of freedom enters into the concept of man. That the objecti...

The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect...

The principle must always rule that ideas are not born of other ideas, philosophies of other philoso...

Common sense is not a single unique conception, identical in time and space. It is the "folklore" of...

The brain is not nourished on beans and truffles but rather the food manages to reconstitute the mol...

Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as...

I live, I am partisan. This is why I hate those who do not take sides; I hate those who are indiffer...

Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in c...

Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that o...

The popular element "feels" but does not always know or understand; the intellectual element "knows"...

Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of ...

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned

At the limit it could be said that every speaking being has a personal language of his own, that is ...

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is...