Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.
Roger Scruton
Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity-the habit of saying good morning to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.
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Our gardens are symbols of home rather than seduction. Young people with fire in their blood are seldom found in them. The garden is the scene of middle age, of the slow passage from sexual excitement to domestic routine.
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[In] An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture,.. Sometimes, as with the Spice Girls or the Pet Shop Boys, serious doubts arise as to whether the performers made more than a minimal contribution to the recording, which owes its trademark to subsequent sound engineering, designed precisely to make it unrepeatable.
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It is a great pity we had only one bottle not enough to revive that proof of the afterlife, though enough to revive some gentle regrets
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The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body.
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Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.
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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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Faith exalts the human heart, by removing it from the market-place, making it sacred and unexchangeable. Under the jurisdiction of religion our deeper feelings are sacralized, so as to become raw material for the ethical life: the life lived in judgement.
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The ethical life.. Is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society.. Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.
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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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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
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Emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or their modernist equivalents, are actually forms of militant irrationality.
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The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.
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This knowing what to do.. Is a matter of having the right purpose, the purpose appropriate to the situation in hand.. The one who knows what to do is the one on whom you can rely to make the best shot at success, whenever success is possible.
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