Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

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

States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

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

In literary representation, the distinction between the genuinely erotic and the licentious is a distinction not of subject-matter, but of perspective. The genuinely erotic work is one which invites the reader to re-create in imagination the first-person point of view of someone party to an erotic encounter. The pornographic work retains as a rule the third-person perspective of the voyeuristic observer.

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.