Quotes by Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks

Explore a curated collection of 9 quotes by Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

The principle must always rule that ideas are not born of other ideas, philosophies of other philosophies; they are a co — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks
The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of c — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradi — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks
The brain is not nourished on beans and truffles but rather the food manages to reconstitute the molecules of the brain — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Common sense is not a single unique conception, identical in time and space. It is the "folklore" of philosophy, and, li — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks
The crisis creates situations which are dangerous in the short run, since the various strata of the population are not a — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as important as what o — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Possibility means "freedom". The measure of freedom enters into the concept of man. That the objective possibilities exi — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks