Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of saying "good morning" to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.

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

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

Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

The best evidence of a mind is when you change it

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.

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