Giovanni Gentile Quotes on Freedom
Giovanni Gentile was an Italian philosopher and the principal theorist of the official idealism of Italian Fascism, which he called actual idealism. This page collects quotes attributed to Giovanni Gentile on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Giovanni Gentile:
“Reality is not given but made by the thinking spirit.”
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Attributed to Giovanni Gentile:
“Spirit knows no past or future, only the eternal present of action.”
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“Origini e dottrina del fascismo , Rome (1929) p. 58, A. James Gregor , The Ideology of Fascism: The Rationale of Totalitarianism , New York: NY, The Free Press (1969) p. 317”
Fascism as a consequence of its Marxian and Sorelian patrimony . . . conjoined with the influence of contemporary Italian idealism , through which Fascist thought attained maturity, conceives philosophy as praxis. -
“The merit of Fascism was that it courageously and vigorously opposed itself to the prejudices of contemporary liberalism—to affirm that the liberty proposed by liberalism serves neither the people nor the individual.”
Orgini e dottrina del fascismo , Rome: Libreria del Littorio, (1929). Origins and Doctrine of Fascism , A. James Gregor , translator and editor, Transaction Publishers (2003) p. 31