The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism.

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.

The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.

For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there.

Time cannot be changed, but time can change you. -YakupAdar

Oh ParisFrom red to green all the yellow dies awayParis Vancouver Hyeres Maintenon New York and the AntillesThe window opens like an orangeThe beautiful fruit of light("Windows")

Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

Time spent arguing with the faithful is, oddly enough, almost never wasted.

I think Twitter is becoming remarkably intolerant and heavily liberal. As in, anything that is perceived as being "pro Trump" is scolded and mocked.

Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.

All a skeptic is is someone who hasn't had an experience yet.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.