“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
