“In each case an error as to the true nature and meaning of life reacts on that life itself and produces not indeed a reality corresponding to the error—which would in that case cease to be an error—but a reality… — 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 that; but it is revealed only in the equivocal form of beauty, submerged, so to speak, in the flood of aesthetic emotion. It is only because truth is revealed in it that the emotion is aesthetic;… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share
“...philosophy does not, like exact or empirical science, bring us to know things of which we were simply ignorant, but brings us to know in a different way things which we already knew in some way; and indeed it follows from our own hypothesis; for if the species of a philosophical genus overlap, the distinction between the known and the… — R. G. Collingwood Copy Share
“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
