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 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….

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past.

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification.

Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things..

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

States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also lik….

Faith exalts the human heart, by removing it from the market-place, making it sacred and unexchangeable. Under the jurisdiction of religion our deepe….

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variet….

The pageant of a former hour, Is Beauty in the Grave..

Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation ….

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

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes..

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..

[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or th….

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

The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition..

Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art..

Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows..

When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment.

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