This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse — appropriate — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible. — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
In political activity . . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Education is … the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
