It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

History is what the evidence compels us to believe.

To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.

Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification of human life implied in even the best of it purposes.

To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.