In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.
~ Roger Scruton
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
~ William Butler Yeats
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My constant appeal to American liberals was to face the long, hard years and not to distract us with the offer of short cuts and easy solutions begotten by good will out of the angels of man’s better nature … The road to freedom and peace is a hard one.
~ Dean Acheson
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The artist says to the cosmos: All I ask is infinite love – is that so very wrong? And the cosmos doesn’t even bother to respond.
~ John Lanchester
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With rebellion, awareness is born.
~ Albert Camus
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Wisdom comes not from age, but from education and learning.
~ Anton Chekhov
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It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgment by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.
~ Franz Kafka
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Philosophies can be judged, at most, on the grounds of the perspicacity with which they decide that something is worthy of becoming the starting point for a global explanatory hypothesis.
~ Umberto Eco
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There is no friend as loyal as a book.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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In the context of health and ecology, things that grow unchecked are often considered parasitic or cancerous. Yet we inhabit a culture that privileges novelty and growth over the cyclical and the regenerative. Our very idea of productivity is premised on the idea of producing something new, whereas we do not tend to see maintenance and are as productive in the same way.
~ Jenny Odell
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