Quote by Antonio Gramsci
"The starting point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself' as a product of the historical process to date."
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."