A philosopher who says, 'There are no truths, only interpretations,' risks the retort: 'Is that true, or only an interpretation?' — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“So conceived, the English police force served to emphasize a fundamental truth about the English law, which is that it exists not… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The first axiom of Marx Scientist is that everything they tell you is a lie. The second axiom is that it doesn’t… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I've always taken the view that works of art are not just things that we enjoy. They can convey truths about the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“law of nature that our scientific thinking tends toward the truth, our morality toward the good, and maybe (though he doesn’t go… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The love of beauty is really a signal to free ourselves from that sensory attachment, and to begin the ascent of the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The goal, Karel said, was not to tell explicit lies but to destroy the distinction between the true and the false, so… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Gradually this truth is beginning to dawn on the political class, so that even socialists have come to accept that the poor… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The idea that scientific method is the only method of discovering the truth has a lot to be said for it, if… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter. — Roger Scruton Copy Share
“So conceived, the English police force served to emphasize a fundamental truth about the English law, which is that it exists not to control… — Roger Scruton Copy Share
My 2018 ended with a hate storm, in response to my appointment as chair of the government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission. — Roger Scruton Copy Share
I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised. — Roger Scruton Copy Share
Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it.… — Roger Scruton Copy Share
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. — Roger Scruton Copy Share
“I think we can all see the force of the idea that there are certain things that cannot be done to human beings –… — Roger Scruton Copy Share
When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded. — Roger Scruton Copy Share
“Western democracies did not create the virtue of citizenship; on the contrary, they grew from it. Nothing is more evident in The Federalist than… — Roger Scruton Copy Share
“If one looks back to the French Revolution, one sees just how easy it is for the doctrine of “human rights” to become an… — Roger Scruton Copy Share
“I say it was immediately apparent, but it was not apparent to the intellectual class, which has remained largely wedded to the post-war consensus… — Roger Scruton Copy Share
Conservatives hold on to things not only because they are attached to them, but also because they do not see the sense in radical… — Roger Scruton Copy Share
“Academic philosophers in the English speaking world still regard philosophy as Locke defined it in the 17th century, as “the handmaiden of the sciences”:… — Roger Scruton Copy Share
Delia Smith is, actually, my bete noire. I consider her a most pernicious influence. — Roger Scruton Copy Share
