Antonio Gramsci

Politician

1891-01-22 – 1937-04-27

Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist. He was born on 1891-01-22 and died on 1937-04-27. He is widely known for the Prison Notebooks and the concept of cultural hegemony.

Quotes by Antonio Gramsci

The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations.
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The principle must always rule that ideas are not born of other ideas, philosophies of other philosophies; they are a continually renewed expression of real historical development. The unity of history (what the idealists call unity of the spirit) is not a presupposition, but a continuously developing process.
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I live, I am partisan. This is why I hate those who do not take sides; I hate those who are indifferent
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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
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Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?
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The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned
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The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned
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The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations.
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Is it better to work out consciously and critically one's own conception of the world and thus, in connection with the labours of one's own brain, choose one's sphere of activity, take an active part in the creation of the history of the world, be one's own guide, refusing to accept passively and supinely from outside the moulding of one' own personality?
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The principle must always rule that ideas are not born of other ideas, philosophies of other philosophies; they are a continually renewed expression of real historical development. The unity of history (what the idealists call unity of the spirit) is not a presupposition, but a continuously developing process.
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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
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I live, I am partisan. This is why I hate those who do not take sides; I hate those who are indifferent
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To tell the truth is revolutionary.
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I am a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
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