The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. Robin G. Collingwood More Quotes by Robin G. Collingwood More Quotes From Robin G. Collingwood The aim of science is to apprehend this purely intelligible world as a thing in itself, an object which is what it is independently of all thinking, and thus antithetical to the sensible world.... The world of thought is the universal, the timeless and spaceless, the absolutely necessary, whereas the world of sense is the contingent, the changing and moving appearance which somehow indicates or symbolizes it. Robin G. Collingwood thoughtful moving thinking 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? Robin G. Collingwood artist doe people Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own, and no ingenuity will combine all these into a single whole. Robin G. Collingwood views giving art To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being a spectacle presented to his intelligent observation; whereas the events of history are never mere phenomena, never mere spectacles for contemplation, but things which the historian looks, not at, but through, to discern the thought within them. Robin G. Collingwood intelligent nature science 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. Robin G. Collingwood psychology law mistake
