Peter Viereck Quotes

• I can think of nothing more gallant, even though again and again we fail, than attempting to get at the facts; attempting to tell things as they really are. For at least reality, though never fully attained, can be defined. Reality is that which, when you don’t believe in it, doesn’t go away.

  Peter Viereck

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

  "The First Conservative" by Tom Reiss, www.newyorker.com. October 24, 2005.

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• Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its citizens aristocrats. But not when it guillontines whoever is individual, superior, or just different.

  Peter Viereck

  Government, Democracy, Trying

  Peter Viereck (1950). “Conservatism Revisited”, p.72, Transaction Publishers

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• What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return -- every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers.

  Peter Viereck

  Air, Oxygen, Stopping

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