Antonio GramsciThe 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.
About This Quote
This quote is very deep and we can use it as the definition of philosophy. This is a quote of George Sorel who is a French philosopher and his ideas about historical development of ideas. George Sorel was a socialist and an early exponent of syndicalism, a philosophy that emphasizes the importance of workers' cooperatives and direct action on the part of the working class.
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