Quotes by Robin George Collingwood

Robin George Collingwood

English philosopher, historian and archaeologist

Alive from: 1889-1943

Category: History and sociology | Philosophers

Quotes 1 till 5 of 5.

• Robin George Collingwood

  

  - +

  +1
  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.

• Robin George Collingwood

  

  - +

  +1
  What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

• Robin George Collingwood

  

  - +

   0
  Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

• Robin George Collingwood

  

  - +

   0
  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.

• Robin George Collingwood

  

  - +

   0
  Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.