Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives … - Robin G. Collingwood

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Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

Robin G. Collingwood

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.

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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?

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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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History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

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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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