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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
Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness
— Robin G. Collingwood
Check and restrain anger. Never make any determination until you find it has entirely subsided.
— Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
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
If we desire a certain type of civilisation and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.
— George Bernard Shaw
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
— Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
Before you are five and twenty you must establish a character that will serve you all your life.
— Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
— James Madison
From a will: And to my communist nephew Oswald, I leave the sum of 10,000 pounds - to be shared equally with his fellow Britishers.
— John Carpenter
Rational truth - and all truth is rational - is essentially that which can justify itself under criticism and in discussion.
— R.G. Collingwood
All history is the history of thought,
— Robin G. Collingwood
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
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
We're not going to get carried away. Well, we are going to for the next couple of days!
— Paul Collingwood
Charles was at this time very fond of inventing games for the amusement of his brothers and sisters;
— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood
Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.
— Robin G. Collingwood
The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.
— Robin G. Collingwood
Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.
— Robin G. Collingwood
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
— Robin G. Collingwood
The dance is the mother of all languages.
— Robin G. Collingwood
The summer kings are gods, and we are finally, in the end, just men.
— Alaya Dawn Johnson
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
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.
— Robin G. Collingwood
Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.
— Stokely Carmichael
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
— Charles Simmons
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.
— Robin G. Collingwood
Nothing capable of being memorized is history.
— Robin G. Collingwood
