“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.” HumansHeartFeelingsMaterialsSacredDeeperJudgementEthicalHuman HeartRaw MaterialsJurisdiction Book:Modern Culture Source: Modern Culture
“We should not value education as a means to prosperity, but prosperity as a means to education. Only then will our priorities be right. For education, unlike prosperity is an end in itself. .. power and influence come through the acquisition of useless knowledge. . . irrelevant subjects bring understanding of the human condition, by forcing the student to stand back from it.” ShouldHumansMeanEndsValuesUnderstandingEducationInfluenceConditionsSubjectsStudentsProsperityPrioritiesUselessHuman ConditionIrrelevantAcquisitionValue Of EducationUseless Knowledge Author:Roger Scruton
“There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.” IfsHumansHas BeensNamesEmotionMysteryConditionsOughtPermanentHuman ConditionKitsch Author:Roger Scruton
“The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare and precarious, that we have no God-given right to destroy our inheritance, but must always patiently submit to the voice of order, and set an example of orderly living.” HumansOrderGivenVoiceConsciousnessExampleAchievementEmbraceResponseConservativeSubmitInheritanceModernityOrderlyPrecarious Author:Roger Scruton
“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.” IfsNeedsHumansMatterSpiritualHuman BeingsUniversalDesertSubjective Author:Roger Scruton
“There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last” IfsNeedsHumansLastsBuildingArchitectureHuman Needs Author:Roger Scruton
“Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.” NeedsHumansPurposeEnjoyBuildingEndureAcceptedInnateHuman Needs Book:The Roger Scruton Reader Source: The Roger Scruton Reader
