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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
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science
optimism
intelligence
pessimism
will
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Antonio Gramsci |
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I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, perversion, not life. That is why I hate the indifferent. The indifference is the deadweight of history. The indifference operates with great power on history. The indifference operates passively, but it operates. It is fate, that which cannot be counted on. It twists pro..
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Antonio Gramsci |
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66b43c0
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The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born
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Antonio Gramsci |
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9b5fae0
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All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals
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Antonio Gramsci |
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206abad
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The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
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crisis
modernity
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Antonio Gramsci |
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Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality."
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thoughts
politics
ideas
knowledge
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Antonio Gramsci |
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ba4bc77
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Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.
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thought
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Antonio Gramsci |
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f02e977
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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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living
outdated
fossils
language
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Antonio Gramsci |
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b601592
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The crisis creates situations which are dangerous in the short run, since the various strata of the population are not all capable of orienting themselves equally swiftly, or of reorganizing with the same rhythm. The traditional ruling class, which has numerous trained cadres, changes men and programmes and, with greater speed than is achieved by the subordinate classes, reabsorbs the control that was slipping from its grasp. Perhaps it may..
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hegemony
organizing
revolution
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Antonio Gramsci |
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Hyty ttdfq dy'man bnfs lTryq@ 'qr', akl w'nm w'fkr l 'stTy` 'n 'f`l 'y shy' akhr ..
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Antonio Gramsci |
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0f5cbce
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At a certain point in their historical lives, social classes become detached from their traditional parties. In other words, the traditional parties in that particular organisational form, with the particular men who constitute, represent and lead them, are no longer recognised by their class (or fraction of a class) as its expression. When such crises occur, the immediate situation becomes delicate and dangerous, because the field is open ..
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the-rise-of-fascism
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Antonio Gramsci |
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d229feb
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Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as important as what one does for victory.
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successors
victory
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Antonio Gramsci |
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7dd2911
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Instruyanse, porque necesitamos toda nuestra inteligencia.
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Antonio Gramsci |
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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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Antonio Gramsci |
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The brain is not nourished on beans and truffles but rather the food manages to reconstitute the molecules of the brain once it has been turned into homogeneous and assimilable substances, which potentially have the "same nature", as the molecules of the brain"
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diet
you-are-what-you-eat
thought
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Antonio Gramsci |
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Cio che avviene, non avviene tanto perche alcuni vogliono che avvenga, quanto perche la massa degli uomini abdica alla sua volonta, lascia fare, lascia aggruppare i nodi che poi solo la spada potra tagliare, lascia promulgare le leggi che poi solo la rivolta fara abrogare, lascia salire al potere gli uomini che poi solo un ammutinamento potra rovesciare
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società
storia
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Antonio Gramsci |
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972689c
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Odio gli indifferenti. Credo che vivere voglia dire essere partigiani. Chi vive veramente non puo non essere cittadino e partigiano. L'indifferenza e abulia, e parassitismo, e vigliaccheria, non e vita. Percio odio gli indifferenti.
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Antonio Gramsci |
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It should never be forgotten that, in the struggle between the nations, it is in the interest of each one of them that the other should be weakened by internal struggle. Hence it is always possible to pose the question of whether the parties exist by virtue of their own strength, as their own necessity, or whether rather they only exist to serve the interests of others.
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political-parties
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Antonio Gramsci |
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1dc4b66
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Common sense is not a single unique conception, identical in time and space. It is the "folklore" of philosophy, and, like folklore, it takes countless different forms. Its most fundamental character is that it is a conception which, even in the brain of one individual, is fragmentary, incoherent and inconsequential." --
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philosophy
thought
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Antonio Gramsci |
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b4f1cfb
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We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopedia knowledge, and men as mere receptacles to be stuffed full of empirical data and a mass of unconnected raw facts, which have to be filed in the brain as in the columns of a dictionary, enabling their owner to respond to the various stimuli from the outside world. This form of culture really is harmful, particularly for the proletariat. It serves only to create maladju..
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Antonio Gramsci |
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Possibility means "freedom". The measure of freedom enters into the concept of man. That the objective possibilities exist for people not to die of hunder and that people do die of hunger, has its importance, or so one would have thought. But the existence of the objective conditions, of possibilities or of freedom is not yet enough: it is necessary to "know" them, and know how to use them."
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possibility
knowledge
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Antonio Gramsci |
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A man of politics writes about philosophy: it could be that his "true" philosophy should be looked for rather in his writings on politics. In every personality there is one dominant and predominant activity: it is here that his thought must be looked for, in a form that is more often than not implicit and at times even in contradiction with what is professly expressed."
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politics
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Antonio Gramsci |
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a1a92a0
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Man can affect his own development and that of his surroundings only so far as he has a clear view of what the possibilities of action are open to him. To do this he has to understand the historical situation in which he finds himself: and once he does this, then he can play an active part in modifying that situation. The man of action is the true philosopher: and the philosopher must of necessity be a man of action.
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Antonio Gramsci |
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i montanari, moralmente piu puri, sono fisicamente piu robusti e <> le consonanti, la gente di pianura (guai poi se sta al livello del mare come i veneziani) invece, oltre che moralmente depravata, e anche fisicamente degenerata e <> le consonanti.
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Antonio Gramsci |
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Vorrei, per essere proprio tranquillo, che tu non ti spaventassi o ti turbassi troppo qualunque condanna siano per darmi. Che tu comprendessi bene, anche col sentimento, che io sono un detenuto politico e saro un condannato politico, che non ho e non avro mai da vergognarmi di questa situazione. Che, in fondo, la detenzione e la condanna le ho volute io stesso, in certo modo, perche non ho mai voluto mutare le mie opinioni, per le quali sar..
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dignità
política
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Antonio Gramsci |
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3e83f84
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Un traduttore qualificato dovrebbe essere in grado non solo di tradurre letteralmente, ma di tradurre i termini, anche concettuali, di una determinata cultura nazionale nei termini di un'altra cultura nazionale, cioe un tale traduttore dovrebbe conoscere criticamente due civilta ed essere in grado di far conoscere l'una all'altra servendosi del linguaggio storicamente determinato di quella civilta alla quale fornisce il materiale d'informaz..
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translation
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Antonio Gramsci |
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3879447
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History teaches, but has no pupils.
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Antonio Gramsci |
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Culture is something quite different. It is organization, discipline of one's inner self, a coming to terms with one's own personality; it is the attainment of a higher awareness, with the aid of which one succeeds in understanding one's own historical value, one's own function in life, one's own rights and obligations.
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Antonio Gramsci |
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Common sense] is a spontaneous set of beliefs which together express a conception of the world which takes the social order as 'the way things are.' It is apparently the 'spontaneous feelings' that people have, the traditional popular conception of the world - what is unimaginatively called "instinct" although it too is in fact a primitive and elementary historical acquisition."
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Antonio Gramsci |
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To tell the truth, to arrive together at the truth, is a communist and revolutionary act.
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Antonio Gramsci |
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0b29555
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History teaches, but it has no pupils.
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Antonio Gramsci |
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0fb074f
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All men are intellectuals: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.
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Antonio Gramsci |
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dfd5d49
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History is at once freedom and necessity.
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Antonio Gramsci |