Politicians Quote by Michael Oakeshott

“In political activity men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbor for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting point nor appointed destination.”

Michael Oakeshott

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“For there is not so complete and perfect a part that we know of nature, which does not owe the being it has, and…

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“to think nothing about the opinion of his society (if he be in any sense a member) is to be unconsciously influenced by it.”

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“For history and for science facts are self-evident and are the subject-matter of these studies, but for philosophy they are the most puzzling things…

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“To theorize’ means, to see as a whole. The actual is a small part of the whole, or a single aspect of it, which,…

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“Image the whole, then execute the parts— Fancy the fabric Quite, ere you build, ere steel strike fire from quartz Ere mortar dab brick!”

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“the first rule of Moritz Haupt for interpreting the classics,—‘Man soll nicht übersetzen.’ [‘Do not translate’:”

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“Property was thus appall’d / That the self was not the same / Single nature’s double name / Neither two nor one was call’d.”

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“a child might possibly change his country; a man can only wish that he might change it.”

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“England in August 1914 was more of a state than she was during the great industrial strikes of 1911–1912.”

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“To define a thing is to see it clearly, to see it as distinct from other things and at the same time to see…

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“in modern philosophy, the first glimpse of the true view of the conception of ‘might is right’ as applying to government is to be…

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