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The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body.
Roger Scruton
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Roger Scruton
Age: 75 †
Born: 1944
Born: February 27
Died: 2020
Died: January 12
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Roger Vernon Scruton
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This knowing what to do... is a matter of having the right purpose, the purpose appropriate to the situation in hand... The one who knows what to do is the one on whom you can rely to make the best shot at success, whenever success is possible.
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Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past
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If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.
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Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
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Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.
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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.
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Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.
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When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment
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To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning what to feel in the various circumstances that prompt them.
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Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved.
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In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was kitsch. Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium.
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Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world
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Freedom can reside only in a point of view, a way of looking upon the system of necessity.Surely this is the one freedom that we may attain to: not to be released from physical reality, but to understand reality and ourselves as part of it, and so be reconciled to what we are.
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In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.
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There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure
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When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.
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Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.
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Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification
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Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.
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The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.
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