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.
Robin G. CollingwoodArt is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness
Robin G. CollingwoodThe 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.
Robin G. CollingwoodLike other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.
Robin G. CollingwoodIf an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting.
Robin G. Collingwood