Robin G. Collingwood

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• Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do. Doe
• A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that ... he… All
• 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… Contemplation
• Nothing capable of being memorized is history. Capable
• The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history. Business
• All history is the history of thought, All
• What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid. Afraid
• 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,… Age
• Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue. Clarify
• If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in… Artist
• The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the… Artist
• 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… Abiding
• The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. Actual
• Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content. Art
• The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it? Artist
• Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own,… All
• Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only… Appetite
• The dance is the mother of all languages. All
• The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind. All
• The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is. History
• History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the… Clue
• Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way. Every New

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