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> [The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it is independently of all thinking, and thus antithetical to the sensible world… The world of thought is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-g-collingwood/the-aim-of-science-is-to-apprehend-this-purely-intelligible-world-as/)

[Robin G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-g-collingwood/)

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## More by Robin G. Collingwood

> [The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-g-collingwood/the-sociability-of-artists-is-a-paradoxical-and-precarious-thing-and/)

[Robin G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-g-collingwood/)

> [As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-g-collingwood/as-a-child-growing-up-among-artists-i-learned-to-think-of-a-picture/)

[Robin G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-g-collingwood/)

> [The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-g-collingwood/the-romantic-artist-expects-people-to-ask-what-has-he-got-to-say-the/)

[Robin G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-g-collingwood/)

> [What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-g-collingwood/what-a-man-is-ashamed-of-is-always-at-bottom-himself-and-he-is/)

[Robin G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-g-collingwood/)

> [Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-g-collingwood/art-is-community-s-medicine-for-that-worst-disease-of-the-mind-the/)

[Robin G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-g-collingwood/)

> [Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-g-collingwood/classical-art-stands-for-form-romantic-art-for-content/)

[Robin G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-g-collingwood/)

> [Nothing capable of being memorized is history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-g-collingwood/nothing-capable-of-being-memorized-is-history/)

[Robin G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-g-collingwood/)

> [A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-g-collingwood/a-man-ceases-to-be-a-beginner-in-any-given-science-and-becomes-a/)

[Robin G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-g-collingwood/)

> [To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-g-collingwood/to-the-scientist-nature-is-always-and-merely-a-phenomenon-not-in-the/)

[Robin G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-g-collingwood/)

> [There is no truer and more abiding happiness than the knowledge that one is free to go on doing, day by day, the best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-g-collingwood/there-is-no-truer-and-more-abiding-happiness-than-the-knowledge-that/)

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> [Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-g-collingwood/like-other-revolutionaries-i-can-thank-god-for-the-reactionaries-they/)

[Robin G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-g-collingwood/)

> [The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-g-collingwood/the-children-of-each-generation-are-taught-to-want-what-they-are/)

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> [Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-g-collingwood/parenthood-is-not-an-object-of-appetite-or-even-desire-it-is-an/)

[Robin G. Collingwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robin-g-collingwood/)

> [Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-g-collingwood/perfect-freedom-is-reserved-for-the-man-who-lives-by-his-own-work-and/)

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> [The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robin-g-collingwood/the-value-of-history-is-that-it-teaches-us-what-man-has-done-and-thus/)

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