R. G. Collingwood

“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…

— R. G. Collingwood

“Every one knows that our civilization is in difficulties, and the stupidity of the suggested remedies only indicates the gravity of the…

— R. G. Collingwood

“Superstitions of all kinds break out on all hands even at this enlightened stage of the world’s history, and there is no…

— R. G. Collingwood

“Art is the cutting edge of the mind, the perpetual out-reaching of thought into the unknown, the act in which thought eternally…

— R. G. Collingwood

“The failure of art is, as we have said, not a complete failure. Substantial truth is revealed to us, we are not…

— R. G. Collingwood

“...philosophy does not, like exact or empirical science, bring us to know things of which we were simply ignorant, but brings us…

— R. G. Collingwood

“as if any one but a fool imagined that he could compress a thing like art or religion or science into an…

— R. G. Collingwood

“Economics is not a true description of one kind of action but an abstract, arbitrary, and therefore erroneous description of all action;…

— R. G. Collingwood

“The world of imagination is thought implicit, the world of thought, so called, is thought explicit.”

— R. G. Collingwood

“In each case an error as to the true nature and meaning of life reacts on that life itself and produces not…

— R. G. Collingwood

“Rational truth—and all truth is rational—is essentially that which can justify itself under criticism and in discussion.”

— R. G. Collingwood

“When the mind becomes conscious of itself as thought it simultaneously becomes conscious of itself as action. Thought and action, truth and…

— R. G. Collingwood