Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home and come to understand our own nature as spiritual beings.

The great artists of the past were aware that human life was full of chaos and suffering but they had a remedy for this and the name of that remedy was beauty. The beautiful work of art brings consolation in sorrow and affirmation in joy, it shows human life to be worthwhile

Beauty is a value as important as truth and goodness

The God of the philosophers disappeared behind the world, because he was described in the third person, and not addressed in the second.

While he joined eagerly in the contemporary intellectual battles, philosophy was, for Spinoza, not a weapon but a way of life, a sacred order whose servants were transported to a supreme and certain blessedness.

In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.

The problems of philosophy and the systems designed to solve them are formulated in terms which tend to refer, not to the realm of actuality, but to the realms of possibility and necessity: to what might be and what must be, rather than to what is.

A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable