The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world..

When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds..

Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is..

Fantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. Imagination is a form of….

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy..

There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re….

We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education….

Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it..

Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use..

Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others..

The best evidence of a mind is when you change it.

There is a crucial distinction to be made between innovation and originality. The second, unlike the first, can never break with what preceded it: to….

Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next.

Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead..

The relation of the soul to the body is like that of a house to its bricks. The soul is a principle of organisation, which governs the flesh and endo….

It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on intellectuals, in their….

The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal gov….

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 ….

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….

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….

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..