Benedetto Croce Quotes

#1. I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.

Raymond Chandler

#2. Art is a true aesthetic synthesis , "a priori" of feeling and image in the intuition, as to which it may be repeated that feeling without image is blind, and image without feeling is void.

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#3. All history is contemporary history.

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#4. Art is what everyone knows it is.

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#5. I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

Susanna Kaysen

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

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

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

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#10. It is not for me (to decide). It is up to the company to decide whether the price is fair or not.

Richard Branson

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

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#12. 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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#13. It's not what you teach, it's what you emphasize.

John Wooden

#14. It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be like a flash of light.

Jeanne DuPrau

#15. 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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#16. One time I got fan mail that was from Africa. It's really neat.

Scarlett Pomers

#17. Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

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