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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 fascist Giovanni Gentile. Croce was President of PEN International, the worldwide writers' association, from 1949 until 1952. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature sixteen times. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. February 1866 – 20. November 1952
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Famous Benedetto Croce Quotes

“Poetry is produced not by the mere caprice of pleasure, but by natural necessity. It is the primary activity of the human mind.”

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Benedetto Croce, The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico. trans. R. G. Collingwood, London 1923.

“Language is articulated, limited sound organized for the purpose of expression.”

Benedetto Croce

Benedetto Croce, quoted in: Geza Revesz, The Origins and Prehistory of Language, London 1956. p. 126

“All history is contemporary history.”

Benedetto Croce

[Allan, George, 1972, Croce and Whitehead on Concrescence, 2, 2, Process Studies, 95–111, http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2328, . Allan lists the sources Croce, History as the Story of Liberty, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1941 (see [Croce, 1938] ) and Croce, History: Its Theory and Practice, New York: Russell & Russell, 1960., 10.5840/process19722215, 27 June 2012, https://web.archive.org/web/20111102045431/http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=2328, 2 November 2011, dead]

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