Roger Scruton Quotes
A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable
In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses.
There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.
... while we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessing the far worse effect of drink on an empty mind.
Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.
A society no more exists for the satisfaction of human needs, than a plant exists for its own health.
