The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism.

If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.

A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.

It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to reconcile order which is not oppression with freedom which is not license.

The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.