"Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for……" — Robin G. Collingwood
"Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue."
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Robin G. Collingwood
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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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A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when 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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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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Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to…
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
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I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am…
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Be patient with the negative people of the world. Take a moment to think how they are helping you clarify…
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The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment…
— Max Euwe
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To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force…
— William Carlos Williams
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Our intention is to clarify and modernize overtime pay rules,
— Elaine Chao
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To clarify, the issue isn't that I'm too fat, it's that I'm too phat. Can I get a WHAT-WHAT!
— Casey Wilson
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Emphasis on technique is justified only so far as it will simplify and clarify the statement of the photographer's concept.
— Ansel Adams
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All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and…
— Ansel Adams
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Absolutely, but let me qualify that-I consider myself an authentic feminist. Not as defined by the modern movement. And, let…
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