Roger Scruton Citas

• Beauty matters. It is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings. If we ignore this need we find ourselves in a spiritual desert.

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  Spiritual, Needs, Desert

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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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  Believe, Asking, Truth Is

  Roger Scruton (2012). “Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey”, p.12, A&C Black

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• Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.

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  Home, Joy, Sorrow

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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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  Risk, Philosopher, Retorts

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• No es la verdad del marxismo lo que explica la disposición de los intelectuales a creer en él, sino el poder que confiere a los intelectuales, en sus intentos de controlar el mundo. Y puesto que, como dice Swift, es inútil razonar a alguien sobre algo en lo que no fue razonado, podemos concluir que el marxismo debe su notable poder para sobrevivir a todas las críticas al hecho de que no es un sistema de pensamiento dirigido a la verdad, sino al poder.

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  Philosophy, Believe, Political

  "A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism". Book by Roger Scruton, 2006.

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• El arte y la música arrojan una luz de sentido sobre la vida ordinaria, y a través de ellos podemos afrontar las cosas que nos perturban y encontrar consuelo y paz en su presencia.

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  Art, Light, Shining

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• En la discusión sobre problemas morales, el relativismo es el primer refugio del canalla.

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  Firsts, Moral, Argument

  Roger Scruton (2012). “Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey”, p.42, A&C Black

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• La belleza puede ser consoladora, perturbadora, sagrada, profana; puede ser estimulante, atrayente, inspiradora, escalofriante. Puede afectarnos de una variedad ilimitada de maneras. Sin embargo, nunca se contempla con indiferencia: la belleza exige que se le preste atención; nos habla directamente como la voz de un amigo íntimo. Si hay personas indiferentes a la belleza, seguramente es porque no la perciben.

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  Beauty, Voice, People

  Roger Scruton (2011). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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• In place of the old beliefs of a civilization based on godliness, judgment and historical loyalty, young people are given the new beliefs of a society based on equality and inclusion, and are told that the judgment of other lifestyles is a crime. ... The "non-judgmental" attitude towards other cultures goes hand-in-hand with a fierce denunciation of the culture that might have been one's own

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  Loyalty, Attitude, Hands

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

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  Our World, Doe, Vanishing

  Roger Scruton (2011). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.161, Oxford University Press

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• When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment

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  Gratitude, Rights, Resentment

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• When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.

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  Gente, Puede, Querer

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• The best evidence of a mind is when you change it

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  Mind, Evidence

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• It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.

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  Nice, People, Assumption

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• The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.

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  Arte, Guerra, Hombres

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• All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same rules and the same laws as us, those people with whom we might one day have to fight side by side to protect our inheritance, those people with whom we will suffer when attacked, those people whose destinies are in some way tied up with our own.

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  Fighting, Destiny, Law

  "Rivers of Blood". BBC Documentary, March 08, 2008.

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• 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 hand in hand with their planned and goal-directed nature, and when they fail the efforts of the state are directed not to changing them but to changing people’s belief that they have failed.

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  Hands, People, Goal

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• Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.

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  Art, Survival, Aspect

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• Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.

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  Art, Made, Cult

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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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  Sacrifice, Culture, Demand

  Roger Scruton (2013). “Modern Culture”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Ser impopular nunca es fácil; pero ser impopular en una buena causa es un escudo contra la desesperación.

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  Despair, Shields, Causes

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• Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next

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  Doe, Generations, Benefits

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• There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

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  Needs, Lasts, Architecture

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• 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 labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Government, Apathy

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• Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world

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  Borders, World, Addresses

  Roger Scruton (2014). “The Soul of the World”, p.175, Princeton University Press

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