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> [“The failure of art is, as we have said, not a complete failure. Substantial truth is revealed to us, we are not cheated of that; but it is revealed only in the equivocal form of beauty, submerged, so to speak,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-g-collingwood/the-failure-of-art-is-as-we-have-said-not-a-complete-failure/)

[R. G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-g-collingwood/)

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## More by R. G. Collingwood

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-g-collingwood/knowledge-as-a-past-fact-as-something-dead-and-done-with-knowledge-by/)

[R. G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-g-collingwood/)

> [“Every one knows that our civilization is in difficulties, and the stupidity of the suggested remedies only indicates the gravity of the disease, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-g-collingwood/every-one-knows-that-our-civilization-is-in-difficulties-and-the/)

[R. G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-g-collingwood/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-g-collingwood/superstitions-of-all-kinds-break-out-on-all-hands-even-at-this/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-g-collingwood/art-is-the-cutting-edge-of-the-mind-the-perpetual-out-reaching-of/)

[R. G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-g-collingwood/)

> [“The failure of art is, as we have said, not a complete failure. Substantial truth is revealed to us, we are not cheated of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-g-collingwood/the-failure-of-art-is-as-we-have-said-not-a-complete-failure/)

[R. G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-g-collingwood/)

> [“...philosophy does not, like exact or empirical science, bring us to know things of which we were simply ignorant, but brings us to know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-g-collingwood/philosophy-does-not-like-exact-or-empirical-science-bring-us-to-know/)

[R. G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-g-collingwood/)

> [“as if any one but a fool imagined that he could compress a thing like art or religion or science into an epigram which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-g-collingwood/as-if-any-one-but-a-fool-imagined-that-he-could-compress-a-thing-like/)

[R. G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-g-collingwood/)

> [“Economics is not a true description of one kind of action but an abstract, arbitrary, and therefore erroneous description of all action; and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-g-collingwood/economics-is-not-a-true-description-of-one-kind-of-action-but-an/)

[R. G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-g-collingwood/)

> [“The world of imagination is thought implicit, the world of thought, so called, is thought explicit.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-g-collingwood/the-world-of-imagination-is-thought-implicit-the-world-of-thought-so/)

[R. G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-g-collingwood/)

> [“In each case an error as to the true nature and meaning of life reacts on that life itself and produces not indeed a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-g-collingwood/in-each-case-an-error-as-to-the-true-nature-and-meaning-of-life/)

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> [“Rational truth—and all truth is rational—is essentially that which can justify itself under criticism and in discussion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-g-collingwood/rational-truth-and-all-truth-is-rational-is-essentially-that-which/)

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> [“When the mind becomes conscious of itself as thought it simultaneously becomes conscious of itself as action. Thought and action, truth and freedom (‘ye…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-g-collingwood/when-the-mind-becomes-conscious-of-itself-as-thought-it/)

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