“History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.” — R.G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else… — R.G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“The question what presuppositions underlie the 'physics' or natural science of a certain people at a certain time is a purely historical question as… — R.G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that… — R.G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“Thus natural science is not a way of knowing the real world; its value lies not in its truth but in its utility; by… — R.G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you… — R.G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“The progressive intellectualization of language, its progressive conversion by the work of grammar and logic into a scientific symbolism, ... represents not a progressive… — R.G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
