"Beauty is vanishing from our world because we……" — Roger Scruton

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

— Roger Scruton

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47 Quotes by Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton has 47 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And…
Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the…
Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the…
There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer…
State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof…
Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of…
The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements…
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines…
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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