Quaderni del Carcere Quotes

“To create a new culture does not simply mean to individually make "original" discoveries, it means also and especially to critically diffuse truths already discovered, to "socialise" them as it were, and thus to make them become the basis of vital actions, an element of coordination and of intellectual and moral order. That a mass of human beings is led to think coherently and in a unitary way what is really present is a "philosophical" fact much more important and "original" than the recovery, on the part of a philosophical "genius", of a new truth that remains the patrimony of small intellectual groups.”
― Antonio Gramsci, Quaderni del Carcere: edizione integrale con tutti i volumi

“The research for the leitmotif, for the rhythm of thought unfolding, needs to be more important than single casual statements and standalone aphorisms.”
― Antonio Gramsci, Quaderni del Carcere: edizione integrale con tutti i volumi

“The research for the leitmotif, for the rhythm of thought in motion, needs to be more important than single casual statements and “staccato” aphorisms.”
― Antonio Gramsci, Quaderni del Carcere: edizione integrale con tutti i volumi

“The research for the leitmotif, for the rhythm of thought in motion, needs to be more important than single casual statements and 'staccato' aphorisms. This preliminary work makes any further research possible. Among the works of a given thinker, moreover, one must distinguish the ones he brought to a conclusion and published from those that remained unpublished, as they were unfinished, and were published by a friend or disciple, not without revisions, remakings, cuts, etc.—that is to say, not without active intervention from the publisher.”
― Antonio Gramsci, Quaderni del Carcere: edizione integrale con tutti i volumi

“The research for the leitmotif, for the rhythm of thoughts in motion, needs to be more important than single casual statements and 'staccato' aphorisms.”
― Antonio Gramsci, Quaderni del Carcere: edizione integrale con tutti i volumi

“The research for the leitmotif, for the rhythm of thoughts in motion, needs to be more important than single casual statements and "staccato" aphorisms.' ("Questions of method," Q16, §2, my trans.)”
― Antonio Gramsci, Quaderni del Carcere: edizione integrale con tutti i volumi

“The research for the leitmotif, for the rhythm of thoughts in motion, needs to be more important than the single casual statements and "staccato" aphorisms.' ("Questions of method," Q16, §2)”
― Antonio Gramsci, Quaderni del Carcere: edizione integrale con tutti i volumi