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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
Aesthetician
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Journalist
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Philosopher
Political Scientist
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Roger Vernon Scruton
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Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.
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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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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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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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States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.
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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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The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.
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A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
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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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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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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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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 philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable
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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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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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Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world
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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 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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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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When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment
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