A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science … - Robin G. Collingwood

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If you're going to play a brain surgeon, you just have to learn how to say the words. You don't have to go and learn how to cut open somebody's scalp. I think acting is acting. Being is something else.

Robin G. Collingwood

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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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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