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Michael Oakeshott quotes: An ideal society, properly so-called, can be none other than an actual, present, society taken at its truest and best.

An ideal society, properly so-called, can be none other than an actual, present, society taken at its truest and best.

Michael Oakeshott quotes: Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

Michael Oakeshott quotes: Property was thus appall'd / That the self was not the same / Single nature's double name / Neither two nor one was call'd.

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

Michael Oakeshott quotes: Culture teaches that there is much one does not want to know .

Culture teaches that there is much one does not want to know .

Michael Oakeshott quotes: Browning: 'Justinian's Pandects only make precise / What simply sparkled in men's eyes before'.

Browning: 'Justinian's Pandects only make precise / What simply sparkled in men's eyes before'.

Michael Oakeshott quotes: potestas is specific, auctoritas is extendable and can grow.

potestas is specific, auctoritas is extendable and can grow.

Michael Oakeshott quotes: To be educated is to know how much one wishes to know and to have the courage not to be tempted beyond this limit .

To be educated is to know how much one wishes to know and to have the courage not to be tempted beyond this limit .

Michael Oakeshott quotes: to see a thing completely is to set it in relation with the universe.

to see a thing completely is to set it in relation with the universe.

Michael Oakeshott quotes: I have wasted a lot of time living.

I have wasted a lot of time living.

Michael Oakeshott quotes: For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

Michael Oakeshott quotes: A child might possibly change his country; a man can only wish that he might change it.

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

Michael Oakeshott quotes: Image the whole, then execute the parts - Fancy the fabric Quite, ere you build, ere steel strike fire from quartz Ere mortar dab brick!

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

Michael Oakeshott quotes: A so-called ideal scheme which does not grow out of reality is definitely and finally not ideal at all.

A so-called ideal scheme which does not grow out of reality is definitely and finally not ideal at all.