Robin G. Collingwood

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 G. Collingwood

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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. ↗

— Robin G. Collingwood

#becomes #beginner #ceases #given #going

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

— Robin G. Collingwood

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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. ↗

— Robin G. Collingwood

#freedom #his #lives #man #own

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

— Robin G. Collingwood

#always #ashamed #being #being afraid #bottom