"It is a profound truth that a well-ordered house is a dangerous thing"

Scholem. The messianic idea of Judaism

‎"If nothing else, the Heidegger case had taught him a very Platonic lesson: in eros begin responsibilities"

Mark Lilla. The reckless mind

‎"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

G.K. Chesterton

"El niño es realista; el muchacho, idealista; el hombre, escéptico, y el viejo, místico"

Goethe

"When the man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys"

George Orwell. Shooting an elephant

"Nothing turns out to be so oppresive and unjust as a feeble government"

Edmund Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France

“Naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret”

Horaci

"¿Cuánta verdad soporta, cuánta verdad osa un espíritu?, esto se fue convirtiendo cada vez más, para mí, en la auténtica unidad de medida"

Friedrich Nietzsche

"No hem de fugir de la vida, ella prou que se'ns escapa"

Eugenio Montale

"A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere"

Groucho Marx

"Un conservador, tal como yo lo entiendo, es un hombre que cree que todo lo bueno ha sido heredado"

Leo Strauss

"The law is necessarily more lax than morality"

Leo Strauss. What is political philosophy?

". . . minimum quod potest haberi de cognitione rerum altissimarum, desiderabilius est quam certissima cognitio quae habetur de minimis rebus . . . ."

". . . the least knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of the lowest things . . . .

Sant Tomàs d'Aquino. Summa Theologica I, q. 1, art. 5

"By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little"

Edmund Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France

"To make a revolution is a measure that, prima fronte, requires an apology"

Edmund Burke. Reflections on the Revolution in France

"Tyranny is always better organized than freedom"

Charles Péguy

"The facts of life are conservative"

Margaret Tatcher

"In politics, idealisme is frequently no more than an excuse for not recognizing unpleasant realities"

Hannah Arendt. Thoughts on politics and revolution

"La democracia es dos lobos y una oveja votando sobre qué se va a comer. La Libertad es la oveja, armada, impugnando el resultado."

Benjamin Franklin

"The basic law of politics is that unanticipated consequences are always more important than the anticipated consequences of your actions"

Irving Kristol. The neoconservative persuasion

"Be not afraid of greatness"

W. Shakespeare. Twelfth night

"(Tacitus) condemned those who opposed the regim, for he saw no alternative to it and they only worsened matters; and condemned too those who supported it, for it was base"

Irving Kristol

"Laws are the children of habit"

Alexis de Tocqueville. Democracy in America

"No vaig demanar a la gent què volien perquè m'haguéssin dit que cavalls més ràpids"

Henry Ford

"I do not think there's a nonmythical, nonideological way of telling a country's story"

Richard Rorty. Achieving our country