“Only someone who sees other people as having intrinsic value can make friends. This does not mean that his friends will not be of instrumental value. But their instrumental value depends upon the refusal to pursue it. The use of friends is available only to those who do not seek it. Those who collect friends for utility’s sake are not collecting friends: they are manipulating people.”
Roger Scruton, Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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