Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

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

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

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

Freedom can reside only in a point of view, a way of looking upon the system of necessity.Surely this is the one freedom that we may attain to: not to be released from physical reality, but to understand reality and ourselves as part of it, and so be reconciled to what we are.

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 endows it with meaning. It is no more separable from the flesh than is the house from its bricks, even if the soul may survive the gradual replacement of every bodily part.

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