To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the … - Robin G. Collingwood

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I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

Robin G. Collingwood

To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature, is therefore possible only to a person who mistakes the transient conditions of a certain historical age for the permanent conditions of human life.

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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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