"Every relationship of hegemony is a pedagogical relationship, and occurs not only within a nation, between the different forces of which the nation is composed, but in the international and world-wide field, between different national and continental civilizations."
"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."