John Ruskin
No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
-John Ruskin
age
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
-John Ruskin
age
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
-John Ruskin
anger
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
-John Ruskin
architecture
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
-John Ruskin
architecture
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
-John Ruskin
architecture
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
-John Ruskin
architecture
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
-John Ruskin
art
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
-John Ruskin
art
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
-John Ruskin
art
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
-John Ruskin
art
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
-John Ruskin
art
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
-John Ruskin
art
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
-John Ruskin
art
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
-John Ruskin
art
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
-John Ruskin
beauty
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
-John Ruskin
beauty
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
-John Ruskin
best
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
-John Ruskin
best
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
-John Ruskin
best
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
-John Ruskin
best
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
-John Ruskin
best
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.
-John Ruskin
business
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
-John Ruskin
change
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
-John Ruskin
death
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
-John Ruskin
education
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
-John Ruskin
education
Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
-John Ruskin
education
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
-John Ruskin
education
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
-John Ruskin
education
The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
-John Ruskin
education
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
-John Ruskin
experience
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
-John Ruskin
family
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
-John Ruskin
food
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
-John Ruskin
good
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
-John Ruskin
good
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