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R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind."

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "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."

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.




R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do."

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness"

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness




R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "Nothing capable of being memorized is history."

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content."

Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid."

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.




R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter."

Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history."

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have."

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is."

The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind."

I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind.




R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "All history is the history of thought."

All history is the history of thought.



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "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 a purpose or intention of parenthood."

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 a purpose or intention of parenthood.



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work."

The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi - the least omission may distort the whole picture."

I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi - the least omission may distort the whole picture.



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "The dance is the mother of all languages."

The dance is the mother of all languages.



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life."

Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "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, and no ingenuity will combine all these into a single whole."

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, and no ingenuity will combine all these into a single whole.



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "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 risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts"

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 risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way."

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "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?"

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?



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided."

Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided.



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books."

No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do."

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.



R.G. Collingwood Quotes: "History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is."

History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.