Quote of the Week: George Santayana, “The Sense of Beauty; being The Outlines of Æsthetic Theory”
“§14. The function of reproduction carries with it not only direct modifications of the body and mind, but a whole set of social institutions, for…
Quotes
Quote of the Week: HRH Prince of Wales, “Harmony”
“Official thinking is just as bad. There are constant efforts to introduce GM technology and to encourage ‘efficient,’ economy of scale systems of farming which,…
Quote of the Week: Roger Scruton, “The Aesthetics of Architecture”
“Contemporary architects often speak of ‘design problems’ and ‘design solutions’, and in that notion of design is encapsulated, as a rule, precisely the attempt to…
Quote of the Week: Léon Krier, “The Architecture of Community”
“Just like artists, experimental scientists generally make discoveries not by systematic thought but by leaps of intuition. Yet it is only through logical deduction and…
Quote of the Week: Eugene Genovese, “The Southern Tradition”
“Still, whatever may go on in New York and the Bay Area, in Dixie and across much of the American heartland a lot of folks,…
Quote of the Week: Mary Eliza Haweis, “The Art of Beauty”
“Alas, when people complain of men not marrying (even they who are able), they forget how little women offer in exchange for all they get…
Quote of the Week: George Orwell, “As I Please”
“Nationalism is universally regarded as inherently Fascist, but this is held only to apply to such national movements as the speaker happens to disapprove of….
Quote of the Week: Mark Steyn, “After America”
“Two generations ago, America, Canada, Australia, and the rest of the developed world took it as read that a sovereign nation had the right to…
Quote of the Week: Ezra Pound, “An Introduction to the Economic Nature of the United States”
“Man has been reduced not even to a digestive tube, but to a bag of money that gradually is losing its value. This cycle has…
Quote of the Week: T. S. Eliot, “After Strange Gods”
“I hold – in summing up – that a tradition is rather a way of feeling and acting which characterises a group throughout generations; and that…