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If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting.

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Robin G. Collingwood's Popular Quotes

All history is the history of thought.

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The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displea…

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

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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 …

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Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

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Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

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The value of history. ..is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.

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