Benedetto Croce famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Art #Imagination #Art Is
All history is contemporary history.
-- Benedetto Croce

#Contemporary
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

#Party #Expression #People
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

#Writing #Past #Weight
History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.
-- Benedetto Croce

#Essentials #Spirit #Humans
The translation called good has original value as a work of art.
-- Benedetto Croce

#Art #Works Of Art #Translations
Art is what everyone knows it is.
-- Benedetto Croce

#Art #Art Is
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

#Knowledge #Knowing #Leaving
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
This is a mission and a vision to do good as well as doing well.
-- Benedetto Croce

#Vision #Missions #Wells

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