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Michael Joseph Oakeshott Quotes

History is what the evidence compels us to believe Picture Quote #1

It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible Picture Quote #1

To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss Picture Quote #1

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Education is... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen to the conversation in which human beings forever seek to understand themselves Picture Quote #1

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The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free Picture Quote #1

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning Picture Quote #1

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History is what the evidence compels us to believe (Michael Joseph Oakeshott Quotes) It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible (Michael Joseph Oakeshott Quotes) To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss (Michael Joseph Oakeshott Quotes) Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat (Michael Joseph Oakeshott Quotes) 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 (Michael Joseph Oakeshott Quotes) Education is... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and to listen to the conversation in which human beings forever seek to understand themselves (Michael Joseph Oakeshott Quotes) The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free (Michael Joseph Oakeshott Quotes) Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning (Michael Joseph Oakeshott Quotes)