Freedom can reside only in a point of view, a way of looking upon the system of necessity.Surely this is the one freedom that we may attain to: not to be released from physical reality, but to understand reality and ourselves as part of it, and so be reconciled to what we are.

To speak of beauty is to enter another and more exalted realm-a realm sufficiently apart from our everyday concerns as to be mentioned only with a certain hesitation. People who are always in praise and pursuit of the beautiful are an embarrassment, like people who make a constant display of their religious faith. Somehow, we feel such things should be kept for our exalted moments, and not paraded in company, or allowed to spill out over dinner.

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

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

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

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past