"The music takes over the words and makes……" — Roger Scruton
"The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language."
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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 Another Language Quotes
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one of 45 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I…
— Balthus
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about…
— Flora Lewis
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Well it is sometimes difficult to act in another language
— Sophie Marceau
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I hope to have more time to think, to look at the sky, dealing with less crisis management, to learn…
— Juliet Stevenson
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Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
— Gates McFadden
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In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who…
— Shirley Hazzard
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The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and…
— Alma Guillermoprieto
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Believe in miracles but don't depend on them. When you hear kind word spoken about a friend, tell him so.…
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Languages are fluffy big pillows stuffed between nations - what others say is muffled and nearly lost in them, and…
— Richard Bach
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Why in the world anyone in America is allowing another language (other than English) to be his first... I don't…
— Margaret Thatcher
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To speak another language is to have another soul
— Charlemagne
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Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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