"This, I believe, is the appropriate image of……" — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
"This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and the proper relationships of human utterances. As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither of an inquiry about ourselves and the world, nor of an accumulating body of information, but of a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries. It is a conversation which goes on both in public and within each of ourselves."
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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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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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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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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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More Accumulating Quotes
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
— Charles Babbage
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I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
— Andrew Carnegie
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As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential…
— Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.
— Mark Twain
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Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body
— George Carlin
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We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from…
— Sharon Salzberg
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Idiots are very very clear - clear in the sense that they do not have the intelligence to feel confusion.…
— Rajneesh
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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your…
— Denis Waitley
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Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.
— Robin Sharma
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A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result…
— P T Barnum
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There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise…
— Unknown Author
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Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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