Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

Although every novel is derived directly from another novel, there is really only one novel, the Quixote.

There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontologist..denies that this is so. It is simply a fact, Darwin's theory and the fossil record are in conflict.

Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for their animadversions only the excuse of perfect ignorance. Both Aquinas' intellectual gifts and his religious nature were of a kind that is no longer commonly seen in the Western world.

Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one.

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.