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Own 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
- Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov