Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved.

State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure. Their inflexibility goes hand in hand with their planned and goal-directed nature, and when they fail the efforts of the state are directed not to changing them but to changing people’s belief that they have failed.

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

Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

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