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Realism...is a kind of disappointed tribute to the ideal.
— Roger Scruton
The greatest modern philosopher was moved by nothing more than by duty. His life, in consequence, was unremarkable.
— Roger Scruton
Like adverts, today's works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves.
— Roger Scruton
Music addresses us from beyond the borders of the natural world
— Roger Scruton
Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.
— Roger Scruton
Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.
— Roger Scruton
Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.
— Roger Scruton
Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.
— Roger Scruton
A society no more exists for the satisfaction of human needs, than a plant exists for its own health.
— Roger Scruton
Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.
— Roger Scruton
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[T]o teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.
— Roger Scruton
The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of doubt.
— Roger Scruton
In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.
— Roger Scruton
A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable
— Roger Scruton
I am not an advocate of Enlightenment. On the contrary, I see it as a form of light pollution, which prevents us from seeing the stars.
— Roger Scruton
Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it.
— 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.
— Roger Scruton
Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.
— Roger Scruton
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
— Roger Scruton
Nothing is more useful than the useless.
— Roger Scruton
Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead.
— Roger Scruton
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.
— Roger Scruton
One thing is immediately apparent, and this is that many statements made in the first-person case are epistemologically privileged.
— Roger Scruton
A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?'
— Roger Scruton
Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of priceit is fleeting as the bow in the clouds. — Roger Scruton
The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.
— Roger Scruton
was calculated to kill off democracy.
— Roger Scruton
Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.
— Roger Scruton
Whose freedom, how exercised, how circumscribed and how defined?
— Roger Scruton
Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next
— Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation
— David Willetts
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
— Roger Scruton
The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.
— Roger Scruton
When many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.
— Roger Scruton
Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
— Roger Scruton
The best evidence of a mind is when you change it
— Roger Scruton
Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification
— Roger Scruton
We've got to stand up not only for free speech, but also for all that we've inherited from the Enlightenment and from Christianity.
— Roger Scruton
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past
— Roger Scruton
Free speech is not the cause of the tensions that are growing around us, but the only possible solution to them.
— Roger Scruton
Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.
— Roger Scruton
Wine is not just an object of pleasure, but an object of knowledge; and the pleasure depends on the knowledge.
— Roger Scruton
Ideological opinion is not merely distinct from knowledge but the enemy of knowledge.
— Roger Scruton
There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last
— Roger Scruton
Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.
— Roger Scruton
But this experience taught me that our civilization cannot survive if we continue to appease the Islamists.
— Roger Scruton
Political order, in short, requires cultural unity, something that politics itself can never provide.
— Roger Scruton
Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.
— Roger Scruton
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Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.
— Roger Scruton
If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless ... nobody wants to be in it.
— Roger Scruton
The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.
— Roger Scruton
The dead and the unborn make their presence known through traditions, institutions, and laws.
— Roger Scruton
There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure
— Roger Scruton
Robert Conquest once announced three laws of politics, the first of which says that everyone is right-wing in the matters he knows about.
— Roger Scruton
When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment
— Roger Scruton
The pageant of a former hour, Is Beauty in the Grave.
— Roger Scruton
