Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge..

Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it ca….

In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspectiv….

State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure. Their infle….

Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of saying "good morn….

To speak of beauty is to enter another and more exalted realm-a realm sufficiently apart from our everyday concerns as to be mentioned only with a ce….

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent par….

A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable.

A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on….

The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the ….

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world.

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation..

This "knowing what to do"... is a matter of having the right purpose, the purpose appropriate to the situation in hand... The one who "knows what to ….

In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Wha….

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t..

All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same rules and the same laws as u….

Cognitive states of mind are seldom addictive, since they depend upon exploration of the world, and the individual encounter with the individual obje….

In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses..

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it..

Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success..

In all the areas of life where people have sought and found consolation through forbidding their desires-sex in particular, and taste in general-the ….