Roger Scruton Quotes

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.

Kant ... stated that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge ... to make room for faith," but all he had "denied" was knowledge of things that are unknowable, and he had not made room for faith but for thought.

[To] interpret Parmenides as a Kant before Kant ... this is exactly what we must do.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.

Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.

If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical imperative.'

What I love about my fragrance Signature is that it's subtle and great to wear for any person at any time.

I'm understated in my approach.

I don't believe in being loud. I find that stupid. Understated things work much better.

I really enjoy doing things that are more subtle and close to home - and literally close to home.

Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; on the other hand, whatever is above all price, and therefore admits of no equivalent, has a dignity. But that which constitutes the condition under which alone something can be an end in itself does not have mere relative worth, i.e., price, but an intrinsic worth, i.e., a dignity.

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right.

But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

Auguries are oft subtle...and dangerous - thou may deem they mean one thing when they mean something else altogether.

The devil is so subtle that he dominates man and persuades him at the same time that he is not being dominated.

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.