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The best evidence of a mind is when you change it

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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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A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable
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Were we to aim in every case at the kind of supreme beauty exemplified by Sta Maria della Salute, we should end with aesthetic overload. The clamorous masterpieces, jostling for attention side by side, would lose their distinctiveness, and the beauty of each of them would be at war with the beauty of the rest.
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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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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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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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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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Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past
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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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When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment
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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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In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.
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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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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 art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.
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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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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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The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
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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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Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.
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