What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
Robin G. CollingwoodThe history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
Robin G. CollingwoodA 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. CollingwoodTo 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.
Robin G. Collingwood