The Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott Quotes

“Hobbes is not an absolutist precisely because he is an authoritarian. His scepticism about the power of reasoning, which applied no less to the ‘artificial reason’ of the Sovereign than to the reasoning of the natural man, together with the rest of his individualism, separate him from the rationalist dictators of his or any age. Indeed, Hobbes, without being himself a liberal, had in him more of the philosophy of liberalism than most of its professed defenders”
― Efraim Podoksik, The Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott

“Live with your age, but be not its creation; labour for your contemporaries, but do for them what they need, and not what they praise’. F. Schiller, Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays (Boston: Francis A. Niccolls, 1902), p. 33.”
― Efraim Podoksik, The Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott

“art is question without answer; religion is question and answer, where the answer cannot be explained but only repeated; science is question and answer, where the answer can be explained in other terms but is abstract, universal and does not deal with particulars; and history is question and answer, where the answer is concrete and particular, but where the totality of answers about particulars can never be assembled.”
― Efraim Podoksik, The Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott