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A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a shared frame of reference among educated people.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
In mathematics and science we solve our problems as well as create them. But in art and philosophy things are not so simple.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
Morality is like a field of flowers beneath which the corpses are piled in a thousand layers. It is an evolved mechanism whereby the human organism proceeds through life sustained on every side by bonds of mutual interest.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
There are big questions science doesn't answer, such as why is there something rather than nothing? There can't be a scientific answer to that because it's the answer that precedes science.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
In art it is always as though the question is what the work of art is really about.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
We should make the case for the things we love, even if we think that people will misunderstand them. That is why people defend the U.S. Constitution, even though so few really understand the subtle thinking embodied in that document.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it.
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We live in an extremely anxious age in which the core of our beliefs has been undermined to a great extent by scientific thinking.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
Of course, it is the case that conservatism as I envisage it distances itself always from abstract conceptions and tries to find the concrete reality.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
The conservative is the one who understands his own society from within and loves and defends it.
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Politics is a matter of day-to-day improvisation, and it often seems as though the major parties are guided only by the desire to stay in office and not by any philosophy that might justify their doing so.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
My own view is that left-wing positions largely come about from resentment - I agree with Nietzsche about this - a resentment about the surrounding social order. They have privileges, I don't. Or, I have them and I can't live up to them.
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What makes a politician accountable is not that there are millions of people who vote, but that there are procedures of government that force him to account for himself.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
Like every other viable environmental policy, the search for clean energy begins at home.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
When a woman cries date rape what she means is the whole thing went too quickly.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
Nothing upset me more than the award of Companion of Honour to Eric Hobsbawm in reward for a lifetime of unswerving loyalty to the Soviet Union.
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America is the one place where you can talk of 'this nation' and everyone knows exactly what you think. People put a flag on their porch, and they do have a desire to localize everything and celebrate things locally.
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Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.
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There is a chapter in 'Gentle Regrets' called 'Coming Home' which is really me expressing my later admiration for my father's public spirit.
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The sanctity of private property is so fundamental a part of the American settlement that the country's conservatives look with suspicion on any policy that seems to prevent people from doing what they will with what is theirs.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
The language of politics is spoken in the first-person plural, and for Conservatives, the duty of the politician is to maintain that first-person plural in being.
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In the traditional dances, physical contact was permitted in a way that it wasn't in everyday life. The electricity of physical contact has gone therefore from young people's lives.
Quote by -Roger Scruton
Delia Smith is, actually, my bete noire. I consider her a most pernicious influence.
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It's right to flog a dead horse sometimes, when the previous flogging has not annihilated it.
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I'm a hate figure for a certain kind of half-educated politically correct person.
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If you say something in advance - if you describe a problem as it arises, people always turn on you because they don't want to hear about it. But when it's too late to do anything, they will then turn around and say that you were right. That's human nature.
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I know ideals aren't realities, but they do influence reality - social, legal, political, cultural.
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I think that, on the whole, risk-taking entrepreneurial characters regard nature as a sort of background that we can use for our own advantage.
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For Conservatives, all disputes over law, liberty and justice are addressed to a historic and existing community. The root of politics, they believe, is attachment - the motive in human beings that binds them to the place, the customs, the history and the people who are theirs.
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Cameron's resignation really was the death knell of the Conservative Party as we knew it because that's something a proper Conservative politician cannot do: renounce leadership at the moment when it's needed.
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Each Chinese person is a kind of replica of the next one and that is a very frightening thing.
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Conservatives reveal themselves through their care for ordinary human things, and their recognition of the fragility of decency and the need to protect it.
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Oriental reality is called ideology in Europe and America, and Western ideology is called reality in the Orient. Those viewpoints eat into people's souls and form two distinct kinds of beings.
Quote by -Rudolf Steiner
In earthly life, a person can conceal whether evil or good is active in his soul. After death, this is no longer possible. The spirit form presents after death the physiognomical expression of what the person was on earth.
Quote by -Rudolf Steiner
By immersing ourselves with our consciousness in a supersensible world, we now learn a new kind of thinking, a new life of mental pictures, one that is not dependent on the nervous system in the way ordinary thinking is. We know that previously we have had to make use of our nervous system, but now we no longer need our brain.
Quote by -Rudolf Steiner
All things which have a directing force here in the physical world cease to exist when one arrives in the imaginative world. If, on the physical plane, you imagine yourself to have done something you actually have not done, you will soon be persuaded by the facts of the physical world that this is not so. This is not the case in astral space.
Quote by -Rudolf Steiner
When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.
Quote by -Rudolf Steiner
The realms of life are many. For each one, special sciences develop. But life itself is a unity, and the more deeply the sciences try to penetrate into their separate realms, the more they withdraw themselves from the vision of the world as a living whole.
Quote by -Rudolf Steiner
Prenatal education can only be an unconscious result of what the parents, particularly the mother, do. If, until the child is born, the mother acts in such a way that she expresses what is morally and intellectually correct, then what she accomplishes in her own continuing education will transfer to the child.
Quote by -Rudolf Steiner
It is one of the sternest judgments confronting a human being after death that insofar as he is himself evil, he can see only what resembles himself because he can reproduce in his own being only the physiognomy of other evil people.
Quote by -Rudolf Steiner
You must always be open to new experiences; by this means, your physical and etheric bodies will be brought into a condition which may be compared with the contented mood of a brooding hen.
Quote by -Rudolf Steiner
The knowledge we gain about the secrets of the spiritual world is at every hour, at every moment, of vital and profound significance for our souls; what seems to be remote from us personally is often what the soul inwardly needs.
Quote by -Rudolf Steiner
Nature has endowed us with needs; among them are some that she leaves to our own activity to satisfy. Abundant as are the gifts she has bestowed upon us, still more abundant are our desires. We seem born to be dissatisfied.
Quote by -Rudolf Steiner
You cannot be an educator or a teacher without relating to children with full insight. Their urge to imitate has been transformed into a receptivity based on a natural and uncontested relationship of authority, and you must take this into account in the broadest possible sense.
Quote by -Rudolf Steiner
Most actions derive not from your own initiative but from your family circumstances, your education, your calling, and so on. You must therefore give up a little time to performing actions which derive from yourself alone. They need not be important; quite insignificant actions fulfill the same purpose.
Quote by -Rudolf Steiner