Experience to be experience must be reality; truth to be true must be true of reality. Experience, truth and reality are inseparable. (Michael Oakeshott)

Experience to be experience must be reality; truth to be true must be true of reality. Experience, truth and reality are inseparable.

Michael Oakeshott

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