"A recorded past is no more than a……" — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
"A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going somewhere but not knowing (in any extended sense), and certainly not revealing to us, how, they came to be afoot on these particular journeys."
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10 Quotes by Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Michael Joseph Oakeshott has 10 quotes on this site.
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Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar,…
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Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it…
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In political activity . . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor…
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Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and…
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Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.
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To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact…
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This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and…
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The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it…
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History is what the evidence compels us to believe.
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