When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.

Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

Were we to aim in every case at the kind of supreme beauty exemplified by Sta Maria della Salute, we should end with aesthetic overload. The clamorous masterpieces, jostling for attention side by side, would lose their distinctiveness, and the beauty of each of them would be at war with the beauty of the rest.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable

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.