Antonio Gramsci — "Common sense is the folklore of philosophy."

"This phrase isn't my own; it's from the pen of French writer Romain Rolland. But people credit me with having said it all the time—so frequently, in fact, that I might as well have said it myself."

"All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals."

"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born."

"We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopedia knowledge, and men as mere receptacles to be stuffed full of empirical data and a mass of unconnected raw facts, which have t…"

"The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned."