Consolation Quote by Roger Scruton Download Open image “The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.” — Roger Scruton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consolation Imaginary Imaginary things
“The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation.” — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Consolation has been wrongly reviled. Consolation is not apathy or inaction. It is not closing one's eyes to the evils of the world. Rather,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary. — Gregg Braden Copy Share Image
Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
There's a level of realism you can only achieve through the imaginary. — Fumito Ueda Copy Share Image
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things, it can… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present blessings. — Aesop 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
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I had thought that growing up's consolation was that you could escape from the arbitrariness of things, that somehow one acquired more control. Now… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role that we… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation. — Clementine Paddleford Copy Share Image
Seek and possess holiness, and consolation will follow, as assuredly as warmth follows the dispensation of the rays of the sun. — Thomas Cogswell Upham Copy Share Image
I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation. — Cardinal Richelieu Copy Share Image
