Benedetto Croce Quotes

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

All history is contemporary history.

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

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

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.

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

Art is what everyone knows it 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.

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

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action a superior mind exists in torture.