Robin G. Collingwood
Robin G. Collingwood
Robin G. Collingwood quotes about
work men perfect
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 one can do, ... , and that this work is absorbed by a steady market and thus supports one's own life ... Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
men history done
The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.
men shame bottom
What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
mean men self
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 kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, 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.
science men beginners
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.
success men perfect
Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.
english-philosopher freedom lives man reserved wants work
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
history generations way
Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.
artist paradoxical instant
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.
desire purpose 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.
mistake law historical
To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature, is therefore possible only to a person who mistakes the transient conditions of a certain historical age for the permanent conditions of human life.
All history is the history of thought,
history being-me capable
Nothing capable of being memorized is history.
nature intelligent reality
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being a spectacle presented to his intelligent observation; whereas the events of history are never mere phenomena, never mere spectacles for contemplation, but things which the historian looks, not at, but through, to discern the thought within them.