About

Beauty

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” — John Keats 1795-1821

Beautiful works of art, music, and literature—profound ideas, expressed beautifully—are too often dismissed as mere 'constructs', ephemeral manifestations of the will to power of their creator.

On this view, beauty is a mere mask—one that should be lifted to reveal the naked power behind it. We believe, by contrast, that beauty exists, that it transcends time and place, and that a life dedicated to appreciating it is a life worth living.

Ralston

College

is

a

bastion

for

discovering

beauty

in all its forms—in thought, in nature, in art, in community, in the past, in friendship—and for cultivating the virtues necessary to counter the onslaught of ugliness and superficiality, and to inspire those who will create the many works of beauty yet to be born.

We invite you to come to Savannah, one of America's most beautiful cities, to experience it here.

“Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.”

Sir Roger Scruton

Podcasts

and

Events

Attend

Event 1st March 2025

Ralston College Virtual Open House | March 1st

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Event Past Event

Works of Wonder: A Ralston College Concert of Mozart and Vivaldi - Thursday, February 20th at 5:30PM

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Podcast 10th February 2025

Iain McGilchrist in Conversation with Ralston College’s Students

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Event Past Event

The Nature of Consolation with Dr Stephen Blackwood - Thursday, February 6th at 5PM

Short
Courses

Challenge yourself to explore big questions, free from the lengthier demands of a degree, through our online short courses, on a range of humanities subjects.

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Humanities
MA

Spend a year in dialogue with life's most searching questions in an open-minded community in Greece and then beautiful Savannah.

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