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States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between…
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Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of…
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Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history…
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There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions…
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State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure.…
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Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in…
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The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare…
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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision…
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The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
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Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if…
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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully!…
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A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors,…
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Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
— C.S. Lewis
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You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things…
— Angela Carter
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if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it…
— Norton Juster
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How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing…
— Norton Juster
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The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.
— Roger Scruton
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Sleep deprivation made his life an imaginary thing, his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water." - Whelk
— Maggie Stiefvater
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These are facts, these are not imaginary things.
— Iyad Allawi
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