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The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn't have to know.
— Joseph Epstein
An ideal society, properly so-called, can be none other than an actual, present, society taken at its truest and best.
— Michael Oakeshott
My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.
— Andy Behrman
We're becoming a nation of sissies.
— Jeannette Walls
Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.
— Michael Oakeshott
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
To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Culture teaches that there is much one does not want to know .
— Michael Oakeshott
Browning: 'Justinian's Pandects only make precise / What simply sparkled in men's eyes before'.
— Michael Oakeshott
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
History is what the evidence compels us to believe.
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life.
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
A so-called ideal scheme which does not grow out of reality is definitely and finally not ideal at all.
— Michael Oakeshott
Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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
A child might possibly change his country; a man can only wish that he might change it.
— Michael Oakeshott
The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.
— Michael Oakeshott
Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
potestas is specific, auctoritas is extendable and can grow.
— Michael Oakeshott
Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)
— Joseph Heller
I have wasted a lot of time living.
— Michael Oakeshott
If you don't have an assistant, you are one!
— Cameron Herold
Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
to see a thing completely is to set it in relation with the universe.
— Michael Oakeshott
It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott