Top 11 Quotes by Benedetto Croce

All history is contemporary history.

Contemporary

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

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, Real, Imagination

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, Equality, Expression

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

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

Benedetto Croce

Art, Imagination, Art Is

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”

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

Benedetto Croce

Essentials, Spirit, Humans

Art is what everyone knows it is.

Benedetto Croce

Art, Art Is, Knows

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

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

Benedetto Croce

Vision, Missions, Wells

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, History

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

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

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