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Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be presented and expounded as an immediate expression of the structure, must be contested in theory as primitive infantilism, and combated in practice with the authentic testimony of Marx, the author of concrete political and historical works.
antonio gramsci— Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971)
They have founded the whole structure of their happiness on these very illusions, which ought to be combated and dissipated by the light of knowledge, and they would think they were paying too dearly for a truth which begins by robbing them of all that has value in their sight. It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom: a truth that was felt at once by him to whom philosophy owes its name.
friedrich von schiller— Letter 8; Variant: They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed.
samuel johnson— Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets (1779-81), "Hughes." (Of Italian opera.)
