A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking … - Roger Scruton

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For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

Roger Scruton

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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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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