The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
Robin G. CollingwoodArt is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness
Robin G. CollingwoodThe value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.
Robin G. CollingwoodTo 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.
Robin G. Collingwood