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From Quotes by Roger Scruton
- There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions and tell us…
- State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure. Their inflexibility goes…
- Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.
- Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
- Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
- The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a…
- Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can…
- Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world
- 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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