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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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Political Scientist
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Roger Vernon Scruton
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Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.
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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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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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A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'
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The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.
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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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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 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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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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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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Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past
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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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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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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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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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Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification
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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 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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