"Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because……" — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
"Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification of human life implied in even the best of it purposes."
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Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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10 Quotes by Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Michael Joseph Oakeshott has 10 quotes on this site.
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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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A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going…
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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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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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