"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."

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Source : Antonio Gramsci (2011). “Letters from Prison”, p.299, Columbia University Press

Antonio Gramsci

#Life Changing Quotes #Optimistic Quotes #Science Quotes

“Every great movement and which the conservative movement is, of course, every great movement ends up being a little bit sclerotic and dusty after a time and I think they need new fusion of energy.”
“The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.”
“Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before”
“I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred truths [...] I can see much to admire in all religions [...] But whether there be a God and whatever be His nature; whether we have an immortal soul or not, or whatever may be our state after death, I can have no fear of having to suffer for the study of nature and the search for truth.”

Source : Alfred Russel Wallace's letter to a relative, 1861.
“Let bygones be bygones because everybody knew that forgiveness was divine.”
“What seems to be a problem or block is often really a Blessing in Disguise”
“In general, I don't like game mechanics, I mean it's the idea you do the same things through different levels. I think, in my mind, it's an ideas I don't really like because I love to do different things and like to see the story moving on and I like to do different things and different scenes, not do the same thing over and over again. If it involves violence at some point fine, if it makes sense in the context. But violence for the sake of violence, it doesn't mean anything to me anymore.”
“I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.”

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