Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Benedetto Croce

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Benedetto Croce was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian, and politician, who wrote on numerous topics, including philosophy, history, historiography and aesthetics. In most regards, Croce was a liberal, although he opposed laissez-faire, free trade, and had considerable influence on other Italian intellectuals, including both Marxist Antonio Gramsci and Italian Fascist Giovanni Gentile.

Italian - Philosopher | February 25, 1866 - November 20, 1952

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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

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

Art is what everyone knows it is.

Benedetto Croce

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

Benedetto Croce

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

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

Benedetto Croce

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.

Benedetto Croce

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

Benedetto Croce

All history is contemporary history.

Benedetto Croce

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

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

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Benedetto Croce

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