Top 6 Quotes by Benjamin Wiker

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience.

Benjamin Wiker

World, Reason, Abstract

Benjamin Wiker (2010). “10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor”, p.14, Regnery Publishing

In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has ever known.

Benjamin Wiker

August, Atheism, World

As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but following the same pattern, once it became the accepted story of human origins, it thereby exercised the power of a self-fulfilling prophecy. In imagining Rousseau to be right, we have become what Rousseau imagined.

Benjamin Wiker

Real, Men, Self

There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first.

Benjamin Wiker

Book, Men, Ideas

Benjamin Wiker (2008). “10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help”, p.5, Regnery Publishing

Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever more questionable goods, until we consent to the greatest evils for the sake of mere trifles.

Benjamin Wiker

Evil, May, Sake

Benjamin Wiker (2008). “10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help”, p.14, Regnery Publishing