Michael Joseph Oakeshott Quotes
The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.
Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.
To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.
Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.
Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.
It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.
Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.
