Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.
Roger ScrutonA writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is โmerely relative,โ is asking you not to believe him. So donโt.
Roger ScrutonPrivate property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
Roger ScrutonClassical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.
Roger ScrutonThere are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure
Roger ScrutonBeauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.
Roger ScrutonThe welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.
Roger Scruton