Benedetto Croce Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.”
-- Benedetto Croce

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“All history is contemporary history.”
-- Benedetto Croce

Source : Benedetto Croce (1922). “Historical Materialism and the Economics of Karl Marx”, p.19, Transaction Publishers

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“Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free.”
-- Benedetto Croce

Source : Benedetto Croce (1942). “Freedom: Its Meaning”

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“The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.”
-- Benedetto Croce

Source : Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”

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“History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.”
-- Benedetto Croce

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“The translation called good has original value as a work of art.”
-- Benedetto Croce

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“Art is what everyone knows it is.”
-- Benedetto Croce

Source : Benedetto Croce, Remo Bodei (2007). “Breviary of aesthetics: four lectures”, Univ of Toronto Pr

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“Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.”
-- Benedetto Croce

Source : Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”

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“We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.”
-- Benedetto Croce

Source : Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”

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“This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well.”
-- Benedetto Croce

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