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“England for him was no longer a real place, but a consecrated isle in the lake of forgetting, where the God of the English still strode through an imaginary Eden, admiring His works.” - Sir Roger Scruton

“The world as we live it is not the world as science explains it, any more than the smile of the Mona Lisa is a smear of pigments on a canvas.” R Scruton, ‘The Soul of the World’. Agreed. Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation Scrutopia - The Roger Scruton Summer School

Roger Scruton Quotes Another wonderful example of RS using but a few hundred words to spell out the human condition and the individual’s predicament.

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"Human beings suffer from loneliness in every circumstance of their earthly lives. They can be lonely on their own, or lonely in company; they can enter a crowded room of friendly people only to find their loneliness deepened by it; they can be lonely even in the company of a

"The Protestant movement that led to the Reformation was fundamentally a protest against the sacramental character of the Roman Catholic Church. It was a rejection of mystery, magic and ritual in favour of the human conscience and it's reasoning powers. In other words, it was a

Scruton's conversation with artist Michael Craig-Martin, from the documentary Why Beauty Matters: Scruton: "When I first entered St. Peter's and confronted Michelangelo's Pieta, for me that was a transforming experience. My life was changed by this. Do you think someone can have

"Ancient philosophy, Christian religion, and Western art all see wine as a channel of communication between god and man, between the rational soul and the animal, between the animal and the vegetable kingdoms. Through wine the distilled essence of the soil seems to flow into the

Preparing for my talk on Hoggart and Scruton, among others, from the last two chapters of Sir Roger's intellectual autobiography, on "Returning Home" and "Regaining my Religion".

Roger Scruton about Léon Krier: "Here was another conservative, a Burkean like me, who had seen the deep connection between the laws of society and the order of the street." (Gentle Regrets)

"The kill is the goal of hunting, and the single-minded motive of the hounds; to call them off at the moment of triumph, when all their intelligence, energy, and skills have been deployed for this very moment, is to betray the relation on which hunting depends – the relation of

"Served cold with a plate of olives, Retsina is the right way to begin a meal in a Greek restaurant; and almost always it will turn your thoughts in an erotic direction. And if at the end of the meal you order a glass or two of the sweet elixir from Cyprus called La Commandaria,

This quotation is taken from this interview: youtube.com/shorts/o4ZLlW0…

Michela A Betta Roger Scruton Quotes In ‘Conversations w RS’ by Mark Dooley, in the last interview RS is asked how hopeful he is about things turning around, he answers, gently, he isn’t.

"Heredity is not sufficient in itself to generate aristocrats who are worthy of the privilege. We need further conditions, if a competent political class is to emerge from the inheritance of office, just as we need further conditions, if a competent political elite is to emerge

"The puritan legacy can be seen in many aspects of British and American society. And what is most interesting to the anthropologist is the ease with which puritan outrage can be displaced from one topic to another, and the equal ease with which the thing formerly disapproved of