Roger Scruton Short Quotes

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Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

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Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.

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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

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When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds.

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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

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In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.

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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 first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

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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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The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.

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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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Kant's position is extremely subtle — so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.

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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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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 abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

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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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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 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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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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Government is the primary need of every man subject to the discipline of social intercourse, and freedom the name of at least one of his anxieties.

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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 all the areas of life where people have sought and found consolation through forbidding their desires—sex in particular, and taste in general—the habit of judgment is now to be stamped out.

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The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.

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