Roger Scruton Quotes

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

There are no indisputable truths.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

A 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.

Subjectivity is objective.

Maybe I don't believe things myself, as well. Truth is such a transient thing.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

There are many levels of truth.

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

The color of truth is gray.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

I’ve never found the truth to be fair and balanced.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

Facts are not the truth. They only indicate where the truth may lie.

There is no standard for truth. We cannot even agree on the meaning of words.

Objectivity in the end is an unattainable ideal.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

Feelings are not everything! There is very little absolute truth in life.

Truth is only a question of point of view.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to "truthiness." I am also someone who has been trained in deconstruction in the literary theory department of Yale University, so I am someone who is tempted to believe that no absolute truth is possible.