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Robin G. Collingwood Quotes: The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.
         

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.


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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.



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The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.



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Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.



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Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness



Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.



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What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.



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Classical art stands for form; romantic art for content.



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The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.



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