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Men Quotes by 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.
- A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that ... he…
- What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
- 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…
- The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.
- 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…
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