Pessimism Of The Spirit; Optimism Of The

I Give Culture This Meaning: Exercise Of Thought, Acquisition Of General Ideas, Habit Of Connecting Causes And Effects ... I Believe That It Means Thinking Well, Whatever One Thinks, And Therefore Acting Well, Whatever One Does.

The Philosophy Of Praxis Does Not Aim At The Peaceful Resolution Of Existing Contradictions In History And Society, But Is The Very Theory Of These Contradictions. It Is Not The Instrument Of Government Of The Dominant Groups In Order To Gain The Consent And Exercise Hegemony Over The Subaltern Classes. It Is The Expression Of Subaltern Classes Who Want To Educate Themselves In The Art Of Government And Who Have An Interest In Knowing All Truths, Even The Unpleasant Ones, And In Avoiding The Impossible Deceptions Of The Upper Class, And Even More Their Own.

How Many Times Have I Wondered If It Is Really Possible To Forge Links With A Mass Of People When One Has Never Had Strong Feelings For Anyone, Not Even One's Own Parents: If It Is Possible To Have A Collectivity When One Has Not Been Deeply Loved Oneself By Individual Human Creatures. Hasn't This Had Some Effect On My Life As A Militant--has It Not Tended To Make Me Sterile And Reduce My Quality As A Revolutionary By Making Everything A Matter Of Pure Intellect, Of Pure Mathematical Calculation?

One Must Speak For A Struggle For A New Culture, That Is, For A New Moral Life That Cannot But Be Intimately Connected To A New Intuition Of Life, Until It Becomes A New Way Of Feeling And Seeing Reality

I Would Like You To Understand Completely, Also Emotionally, That I'm A Political Detainee And Will Be A Political Prisoner, That I Have Nothing Now Or In The Future To Be Ashamed Of In This Situation. That, At Bottom, I Myself Have In A Certain Sense Asked For This Detention And This Sentence, Because I've Always Refused To Change My Opinion, For Which I Would Be Willing To Give My Life And Not Just Remain In Prison. That Therefore I Can Only Be Tranquil And Content With Myself.