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

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.

It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.

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.

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

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

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.