Quotes by Robin George Collingwood

Robin George Collingwood

English philosopher, historian and archaeologist

Lived from: 1889 - 1943

Category: History and sociology | Philosophers Country: United Kingdom

Born: 22 february 1889 Died: 9 january 1943

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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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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Subjects in these quotes:

• revolutionaries
• reactionaries
• parenthood
• intention
• reserved
• himself

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