Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature, is therefore possible only to a person who mistakes the transient conditions of a certain… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid. — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that ...… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being a spectacle presented to his intelligent observation; whereas the events of history are never mere phenomena, never mere spectacles for contemplation, but things which the historian looks, not at, but through, to discern the thought… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share
There is no truer and more abiding happiness than the knowledge that one is free to go on doing, day by day, the best work one can do, ... , and that this work is absorbed by a steady market and thus supports one's own life ... Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue. — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have. — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
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