Becoming Quote by Antonio Gramsci

“The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned”

— Antonio Gramsci

Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real…

— Terry Tempest Williams

To live in the universe of high modernity is to live in an environment of chance and risk, the ineveitable concomitants of a system…

— Anthony Giddens

“The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of…

— Antonio Gramsci

“De Man's challenge to modernity was to put forward a new mode of subject constitution, not one that relied upon the foundational operation of…

— Wlad Godzich

“This is where the disillusioned gathered to look for new illusions”

— William McKeen

“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety…

— Antonio Gramsci

So one time for my disillusioned artists, I hear ya Two times for the kid that air-guitars in the mirror Three times for the…

— Danny Denzongpa

Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation and leave…

— Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Psychological factors are vital. We don't learn how to improve our emotional intelligence. Even in ancient cultures, such as the Greeks, cultivation of the…

— Patrick Holford

To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.

— Muriel Barbery

“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster