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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.
Roger Scruton
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Roger Scruton
Age: 75 †
Born: 1944
Born: February 27
Died: 2020
Died: January 12
Aesthetician
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Journalist
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Philosopher
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Roger Vernon Scruton
Professor Sir Roger Vernon Scruton
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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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Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.
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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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Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification
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The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.
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Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.
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In our democratic culture people often think it is threatening to judge another person's taste. Some are even offended by the suggestion that there is a difference between good and bad taste, or that it matters what you look at or read or listen to.
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There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last
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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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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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The best evidence of a mind is when you change it
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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.
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In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.
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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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The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
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The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.
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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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A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'
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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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Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.
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