Quote by Antonio Gramsci
"The mode of existence of a new intellectual can no longer consist in eloquence, which is an exterior and momentary mover of feelings and passions, but in active participation in practical life."
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."