The great benefit of philosophy, which is also its great weakness, is that all its steps are taken in the spirit of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“People who are always in praise and pursuit of the beautiful are an embarrassment, like people who make a constant display of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
One must recognise what all religious people know, which is that human beings are imperfect and fallen and there's no way in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“To the mass of mankind, therefore, the philosopher may appear as a spiritual saboteur, a subverter of things lawfully established, and an… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Whatever our religion and our private convictions, we are the collective inheritors of things both excellent and rare, and political life, for… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The true face of religion belongs to the re-enchantment of our injured civilization; faith is a way of filling all the spiritual… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Under the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006, it is an offence to stir up hatred towards religious and racial groups. 'Stirring… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“By living in a spirit of forgiveness we not only uphold the core value of citizenship but also find the path to… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The long-term effect of this has been to open Western societies to immigration, and to impart an ideal of citizenship that, it… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“GK Chesterton once said that to criticise religion because it leads people to kill each other is like criticising love because it… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Religion, for Father Pavel, involved no escape from the natural into the supernatural, no repudiation of this world for the sake of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Faith exalts the human heart, by removing it from the market-place, making it sacred and unexchangeable. Under the jurisdiction of religion our… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Belief without any practice is of no use to us. But there are two sides to religious practice: one is the ritualistic,… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter. — 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 to control… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
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 Image
I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
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 Image
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“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 Image
When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
