John Ruskin Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

  John Ruskin

  Money, Purpose, Literature

• We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Purpose, World

  John Ruskin (1899*). “John Ruskin's Works”

• No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered then, only in following openly-declared purposes , and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Birthday, Lying

  "The Complete Works of John Ruskin".

• Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.

  John Ruskin

  Teaching, Men, Sky

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.30, Courier Corporation

• Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and the lordliest faculty, to gild the shadows of an antechamber, or heighten the splendours of a holiday.

  John Ruskin

  Holiday, Mean, Men

  John Ruskin (1873). “Pt. 6-9 of leaf beauty. of cloud beauty. of ideas of relation”, p.233

• The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Fall, Pride

• There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.

  John Ruskin

  Mean, Purpose, Done

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