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He despised the mathematical or utilitarian approach to politics. He attacked those who mistook comfort for civilisation. In his view real civilisation required deeper roots. A nation to be worthy of the name will build on its own history, customs and creed.
Edward Young • Disraeli: or, The Two Lives
Cyril Connolly said that literature is writing meant to be read twice—everything else is mere journalism.
Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
The chief English fault, especially in the nineteenth century, has been lack of decision, not only lack of decision in action, but lack of the equally essential decision in thought–which some call dogma.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Property is very prominent in Locke's political philosophy, and is, according to him, the chief reason for the institution of civil government: “The great and chief end of men uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property; to which in the state of nature there are many things wanting.”
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
anarchy.
Matt Haig • The Humans
André Breton (1896–1966). In the 1920s, Breton developed into one of the great fascinators of modern art – a quality which does not always come across in the chanting, verbose cadences of his prose, especially in translation. He inspired, as one of his disciples put it, a doglike devotion, largely because he was very inventive, very perceptive, as
... See moreRobert Hughes • The Shock of the New
You think of a remote man merely as a man; that is, you think of him in the right way.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
