All history is the history of thought.

- Robin G. Collingwood

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

- Robin G. Collingwood

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

- Robin G. Collingwood

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…

- Robin G. Collingwood

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

- 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 …

- Robin G. Collingwood

The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.

- Robin G. Collingwood

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

- Robin G. Collingwood

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

- Robin G. Collingwood