“Economics is not a true description of one kind of action but an abstract, arbitrary, and therefore erroneous description of all action; and the ‘economic man’ whom it describes is not, in these days, denied to be a fictitious entity” — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“Knowledge as a past fact, as something dead and done with—knowledge by the time it gets into encyclopaedias and text-books—does consist of assertion, and those who treat it as an affair of encyclopaedias and text-books may be forgiven for thinking that it is assertion and nothing else. But those who look upon it as an affair of discovery and exploration… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share
“Every one knows that our civilization is in difficulties, and the stupidity of the suggested remedies only indicates the gravity of the disease, for… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“Superstitions of all kinds break out on all hands even at this enlightened stage of the world’s history, and there is no reason to… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“Art is the cutting edge of the mind, the perpetual out-reaching of thought into the unknown, the act in which thought eternally sets itself a fresh problem. So play, which is identical with art, is the attitude which looks at the world as an infinite and indeterminate field for activity, a perpetual adventure. All life is an adventure, and the… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share
“The failure of art is, as we have said, not a complete failure. Substantial truth is revealed to us, we are not cheated of… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“...philosophy does not, like exact or empirical science, bring us to know things of which we were simply ignorant, but brings us to know… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“as if any one but a fool imagined that he could compress a thing like art or religion or science into an epigram which… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“Economics is not a true description of one kind of action but an abstract, arbitrary, and therefore erroneous description of all action; and the… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“The world of imagination is thought implicit, the world of thought, so called, is thought explicit.” — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“In each case an error as to the true nature and meaning of life reacts on that life itself and produces not indeed a… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“Rational truth—and all truth is rational—is essentially that which can justify itself under criticism and in discussion.” — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“When the mind becomes conscious of itself as thought it simultaneously becomes conscious of itself as action. Thought and action, truth and freedom (‘ye… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
