Benedetto Croce Quotes

• All history is contemporary history.

  Benedetto Croce

  Contemporary

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

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• Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. Images are it's only wealth. It does not classify objects, it does not pronounce them real or imaginary, does not qualify them does not define them; it feels and presents them.

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  Art, Real, Imagination

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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.

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  Party, Equality, Expression

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

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• Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

  Benedetto Croce

  Art, Imagination, Art Is

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• History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.

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  Essentials, Spirit, Humans

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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

  Men, History, Alive

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

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• Art is what everyone knows it is.

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  Art, Art Is, Knows

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

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• This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well.

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  Vision, Missions, Wells

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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.

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  Writing, Past, History

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

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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.

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  Knowledge, Knowing, Leaving

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

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• The translation called good has original value as a work of art.

  Benedetto Croce

  Art, Translations, Originals

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