"A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths,……" — Roger Scruton
"A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'"
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Roger Scruton
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47 Quotes by Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton has 47 quotes on this site.
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States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And…
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Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the…
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Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the…
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There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer…
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State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof…
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Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of…
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The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements…
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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines…
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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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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
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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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More Interpretation Quotes
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one of 499 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
— Ansel Adams
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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more…
— David Bowie
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The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
— Pablo Casals
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I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles…
— Noam Chomsky
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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I don't have a religion. I believe in a God. I don't know what it looks like but it's MY…
— Jennifer Aniston
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Morphological information has provided the greatest single source of data in the formulation and development of the theory of evolution…
— Unknown Author
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