Top 32 G Collingwood Quotes
#2. 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.
Robin G. Collingwood
#3. Thus natural science is not a way of knowing the real world; its value lies not in its truth but in its utility; by scientific thought we do not know nature, we dismember it in order to master it.
R.G. Collingwood
#4. Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness
Robin G. Collingwood
#5. The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
Robin G. Collingwood
#6. There are basically two types of memory which can either be long or short term.
Marc Collingwood
#7. The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?
Robin G. Collingwood
#8. As a child growing up among artists I learned to think of a picture not as a finished product exposed for the admiration of the virtuosi, but as the visible record, lying about the house, of an attempt to solve a definite problem in painting.
Robin G. Collingwood
#9. 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. Collingwood
#10. The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.
Robin G. Collingwood
#11. Rational truth - and all truth is rational - is essentially that which can justify itself under criticism and in discussion.
R.G. Collingwood
#12. Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own, and no ingenuity will combine all these into a single whole.
Robin G. Collingwood
#15. The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily,
Eddie McGuire
#17. Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
Robin G. Collingwood
#19. No one who was not by nature a lover of logic, and an extreme precisian in the use of words and phrases, could have written the two "Alice" books.
Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
#21. Charles was at this time very fond of inventing games for the amusement of his brothers and sisters;
Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
#22. 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. Collingwood
#23. The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.
Robin G. Collingwood
#25. We're not going to get carried away. Well, we are going to for the next couple of days!
Paul Collingwood
#26. Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.
Robin G. Collingwood
#27. I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind.
Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
#28. I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio falsi - the least omission may distort the whole picture.
Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
#29. I have played a lot of Test cricket with Paul Collingwood over the past year. I seem to be spending more time with him than my fiancee.
Kevin Pietersen
#30. The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.
Robin G. Collingwood
#31. The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts
Robin G. Collingwood
