More from Roger Scruton
- Modern Philosophy (1995), “The Nature of Philosophy” (p. 6)
When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds.
“Should he have spoken?”, The New Criterion (September 2006), p. 22In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
Modern Philosophy (1995), “Some More -isms”, p. 32
More about beauty
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In context
Helen Keller1880–1968Letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks (8 June 1891)
