Quote by Antonio Gramsci
"Consciousness is not something that preexists and is then realized in practice; rather it is something that is produced and develops with practice."
More from Antonio Gramsci
"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."
"I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will."
"All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals."
"To know oneself is true progress, for it leads to the conquest of the self."