Sytse de Jong Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@LucasHartong @djeppink @parool “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” (George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905).

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“We are happier in Plato’s cave than on the pinnacles above it, and the extreme form of Enlightenment -the scienticism that chases all shadows away- is also a form of light pollution, which prevents us from seeing the stars.” Roger Scruton, Arguments for Conservatism

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The true spirit of conservation sees the past not as a commercialised ‘heritage’, but as a living inheritance, something that lasts because it lives in me. Roger Scruton, How to think seriously about the planet. https://t.co/XeExBL6pAM

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“We are happier in Plato’s cave than on the pinnacles above it, and the extreme form of Enlightenment -the scienticism that chases all shadows away- is also a form of light pollution, which prevents us from seeing the stars.” Roger Scruton, Arguments for Conservatism

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“Societies endure only when they are devoted to future generations, and collapse like the Roman Empire when the pleasures and fancies of the living consume the stock of social capital.” (Roger Scruton, A Political Philosophy - Arguments for Conservatism)

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@LucasHartong @djeppink @parool “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” (George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905).