"The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary……" — Roger Scruton
"The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation."
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Roger Scruton
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47 Quotes by Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton has 47 quotes on this site.
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States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And…
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Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the…
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Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the…
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There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer…
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State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof…
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Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of…
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The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements…
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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines…
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The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
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Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
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More Consolation Quotes
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The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit…
— Brendan Behan
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all…
— Edmund Burke
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If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one…
— George MacDonald
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Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason,…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip…
— Phyllis McGinley
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Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to…
— Tryon Edwards
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For grief is crowned with consolation.
— William Shakespeare
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have…
— Albert Camus
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The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness.…
— Khalil Gibran
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Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I…
— Charles Spurgeon
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In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
— Martin Luther
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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
— Josh Billings
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