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

The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.

Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.

There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us they’re not really answerable. I draw on art and literature, and music in particular, because music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world. Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.

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.

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure