Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning … - Roger Scruton

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I don't care what reviewers think. If somebody hates a performance of mine, I kind of get a kick out of it. It amuses me when critics take something so irrelevant as a movie so seriously.

Roger Scruton

Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.

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

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Freedom can reside only in a point of view, a way of looking upon the system of necessity. Surely this is the one freedom that we may attain to: not to be released from physical reality, but to understand reality and ourselves as part of it, and so be reconciled to what we are.

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Creativity is not enough. . . the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it.

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The relation of the soul to the body is like that of a house to its bricks. The soul is a principle of organisation, which governs the flesh and endows it with meaning. It is no more separable from the flesh than is the house from its bricks, even if the soul may survive the gradual replacement of every bodily part.

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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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It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.

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