"By one road or another, by conviction, by its supposed inevitability, by its alleged success, or even quite unreflect…"

"The general character and disposition of the Rationalist are, I think, not difficult to identify. At bottom he stands…"

"By a pardonable abridgment of history, the Rationalist character may be seen springing from the exaggeration of Bacon…"

"Rationalist politics, I have said, are the politics of the felt need, the felt need not qualified by a genuine, concr…"

"Rationalism in politics, as I have interpreted it, involves an identifiable error, a misconception with regard to the…"

"The predicament of our time is that the Rationalists have been at work so long on their project of drawing off the li…"

"To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to myste…"

"Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat."

"In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor …"

"Whatever is satisfactory in experience is true, and it is true because it is satisfactory."