“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 think that they will soon become extinct.” — 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… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“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
