“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.”
“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.”
Michael Oakeshott
“The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.”
Michael Oakeshott“Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.”
Michael Oakeshott“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“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.”
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