Antonio Gramsci Quotes on Mind
Antonio Gramsci was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, and a founder of the Italian Communist Party. This page collects quotes attributed to Antonio Gramsci on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Antonio Gramsci:
“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”
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Attributed to Antonio Gramsci:
“The starting point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is.”
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“The history of education shows that every class which has sought to take power has prepared itself for power by an autonomous education. The first step in emancipating oneself from political and social slavery is that of freeing the mind. I put forward this new idea: popular schooling should be placed under the control of the great workers’ unions . The problem of education is the most important class problem .”
Cited in Davidson's (1977) Antonio Gramsci: Towards an Intellectual Biography. London: Merlin Press., p. 77. -
“For two years I have lived outside the world: in a dream world. One by one, I let each strand tying me to the world and to my fellow men be cut. I live entirely for the mind, for the heart not at all …. I turned myself into a bear, inside and outside … other people did not exist for me. For perhaps two years, I didn’t laugh once and I didn’t cry … but I never hurt anyone but myself.”
Gramsci cited in Davidson, 1977, p. 70.