“There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the… — Michael Oakeshott Life Copy Share Image
“For there is not so complete and perfect a part that we know of nature, which does not owe the being it… — Michael Oakeshott Nature Copy Share Image
“to think nothing about the opinion of his society (if he be in any sense a member) is to be unconsciously influenced… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“For history and for science facts are self-evident and are the subject-matter of these studies, but for philosophy they are the most… — Michael Oakeshott History Copy Share Image
“To theorize’ means, to see as a whole. The actual is a small part of the whole, or a single aspect of… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“Image the whole, then execute the parts— Fancy the fabric Quite, ere you build, ere steel strike fire from quartz Ere mortar… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“the first rule of Moritz Haupt for interpreting the classics,—‘Man soll nicht übersetzen.’ [‘Do not translate’:” — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“Property was thus appall’d / That the self was not the same / Single nature’s double name / Neither two nor one… — Michael Oakeshott Identity Copy Share Image
“a child might possibly change his country; a man can only wish that he might change it.” — Michael Oakeshott Children Copy Share Image
“England in August 1914 was more of a state than she was during the great industrial strikes of 1911–1912.” — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“To define a thing is to see it clearly, to see it as distinct from other things and at the same time… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“in modern philosophy, the first glimpse of the true view of the conception of ‘might is right’ as applying to government is… — Michael Oakeshott Modern philosophy Copy Share Image
“The process of experiencing is well described by Goethe when he says that our life is made up of our connections with… — Michael Oakeshott Life Copy Share Image
“For a great state, qua state, is not one which embraces a great population or an extensive territory, but one which achieves… — Michael Oakeshott Good life Copy Share Image
In political activity men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbor for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting… — Michael Oakeshott Politicians Copy Share Image
“A so-called ideal scheme which does not grow out of reality is definitely and finally not ideal at all.” — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“The real, if it is anything, is a coherent whole, it is a unity so unified as to preclude the possibility of… — Michael Oakeshott Truth Copy Share Image
“As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither of an inquiry about ourselves and the world, nor of an accumulating body… — Michael Oakeshott Communication Copy Share Image
“to see a thing completely is to set it in relation with the universe.” — Michael Oakeshott Physics Copy Share Image
“When Plutarch says that a city might sooner subsist without a geographical site than without belief in the gods, his words would… — Michael Oakeshott Time Copy Share Image
“cannot associate with one another without creating a moral relationship.” — Michael Oakeshott Relationship Copy Share Image
“In political activity . . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for… — Michael Oakeshott Politics Copy Share Image
“We remember the Spartan ambassador who, being asked in whose name he had come, replied: ‘In the name of the State, if… — Michael Oakeshott Copy Share Image
“An ideal society, properly so-called, can be none other than an actual, present, society taken at its truest and best.” — Michael Oakeshott Community Copy Share Image
