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

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.

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

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

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

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.