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Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

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Roger Scruton
Age: 75 †
Born: 1944
Born: February 27
Died: 2020
Died: January 12
Aesthetician
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Philosopher
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Roger Vernon Scruton
Professor Sir Roger Vernon Scruton
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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
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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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Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.
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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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The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.
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When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment
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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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Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of saying good morning to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.
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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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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
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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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Faith exalts the human heart, by removing it from the market-place, making it sacred and unexchangeable. Under the jurisdiction of religion our deeper feelings are sacralized, so as to become raw material for the ethical life: the life lived in judgement.
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In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.
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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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A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable
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The best evidence of a mind is when you change it
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Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.
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Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history of their use.
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Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.
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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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