Quotes by Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton

A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge.

Civilization

Political

Religious

A philosopher who says, ‘There are no truths, only interpretations,’ risks the retort: ‘Is that true, or only an interpretation?’

Philosopher

Retorts

Risk

A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable

Believe

Doubt

Philosophy

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.

Asking

Believe

Truth Is

Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity – the habit of saying “good morning” to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.

Exercise

Inspiration

Morning

Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.

Art

Aspect

Survival

Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.

Art

Cult

Made

Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.

Beauty

People

Voice

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

Doe

Our World

Vanishing

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.

Desert

Needs

Spiritual

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Abstract

Addiction

Addresses

Anarchy

Apathy

Architecture

Argument

Art

Artist

Asking

Aspect

Assumption

Atheist

Attention

Attitude

Beautiful

Beauty

Believe

Benefits

Bernard Shaw

Borders

Boring

Building

Bullying

Civilization

Cult

Culture

Deeds

Demand

Desert

Desire

Differences

Diversity

Doe

Doubt

Emotion

Emotional

Example

Exercise

Feelings

Firsts

Games

Generations

Government

Gratitude

Half

Hands

Heart

Home

Hours

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Quotes by Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton

A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge.

A philosopher who says, ‘There are no truths, only interpretations,’ risks the retort: ‘Is that true, or only an interpretation?’

A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable

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.

Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity – the habit of saying “good morning” to those whose mornings you would rather blight, and of passing the butter to those you would rather starve.

Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.

Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.

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

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.

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