A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'

Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next

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

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

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

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.

It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.