Roger Scruton Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

  Roger Scruton

  Needs, Purpose, Building

  Roger Scruton (2009). “The Roger Scruton Reader”, p.169, A&C Black

• Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows.

  Roger Scruton

  Home, Joy, Sorrow

• States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.

  Roger Scruton

  People, Diversity, Joy

• This "knowing what to do"... is a matter of having the right purpose, the purpose appropriate to the situation in hand... The one who "knows what to do" is the one on whom you can rely to make the best shot at success, whenever success is possible.

  Roger Scruton

  Hands, Knowing, Purpose

  Roger Scruton (2007). “Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged”, p.35, Encounter Books

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