A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable
Roger ScrutonFreedom can reside only in a point of view, a way of looking upon the system of necessity.Surely this is the one freedom that we may attain to: not to be released from physical reality, but to understand reality and ourselves as part of it, and so be reconciled to what we are.
Roger ScrutonWhen gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment
Roger ScrutonThere are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure
Roger ScrutonA writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
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