Robin G. Collingwood
Robin G. Collingwood
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.
issues thank-god revolutionary
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.
past history mind
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
chiefs century twentieth-century
The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.
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.
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.
dance mother language
The dance is the mother of all languages.
artist ideas effort
If 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.