Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.
The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion pr… - Michael Joseph Oakeshott
The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion pr…
- Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat. - Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.
Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice have brought together. In this s… - Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Politics I take to be the activity of attending to the general arrangements of a set of people whom chance or choice have brought together. In this s…
We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no majority, no govern… - Michael Joseph Oakeshott
We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no majority, no govern…
Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us. - Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.
Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen to the conversation in which… - Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen to the conversation in which…
In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-… - Michael Joseph Oakeshott
In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-…
Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning. - Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.
The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better. - Michael Joseph Oakeshott
The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.
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