"A man ceases to be a beginner in……" — 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 ... he is going to be a beginner all his life."
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22 Quotes by 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…
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To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but…
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Nothing capable of being memorized is history.
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The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.
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All history is the history of thought,
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What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always…
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To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and…
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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.
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If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason…
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The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he…
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There is no truer and more abiding happiness than the knowledge that one is free to go on doing, day…
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The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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