352 Quotes by Roger Scruton

The important person in a free economy is not the manager but the entrepreneur – the one who takes risks and meets the cost of them.

There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines – lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure.

The identification of any object in the first-person case is ruled out by the enterprise of scientific explanation. So science cannot tell me who I am, let alone where, when, or how.

A philosopher who says, ‘There are no truths, only interpretations,’ risks the retort: ‘Is that true, or only an interpretation?’

Nor should we be surprised that it is absent from the world of the Islamists – even though forgiveness has an important place in the practice of Islam and in the morality of the Koran.4.

Beauty is not the source of disinterested pleasure, but simply the object of a universal interest: the interest that we have in beauty, and in the pleasure that beauty brings.

And in answering that question he saw the inside of that bleak Viking world, the reality of love and compassion that all these hammer-throwing and skull-smashing gods concealed. That.

Like adverts, today’s works of art aim to create a brand, even if they have no product to sell except themselves.

Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price – it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds.