John Ruskin Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

  John Ruskin

  Women, Soul, Doe

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.91, University of Virginia Press

• All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Soul, Literature

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.312, John Ruskin

• There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul.

  John Ruskin

  Eye, Animal, Light

  John Ruskin (1855). “Notes on Some of the Principal Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Academy, the Old and New Societies of Painters in Water Colours, the Society of British Artists and the French Exhibition”

• Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.

  John Ruskin

  Education, Teaching, Mean

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.230, Cosimo, Inc.

• Trust thou thy Love: if she be proud, is she not sweet?
  Trust thou thy love: if she be mute, is she not pure?
  Lay thou thy soul full in her hands, low at her feet-
  Fail, Sun and Breath!-yet, for thy peace, she shall endure.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Sweet, Hands

  John Ruskin (1903). “The Works of John Ruskin”

• Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Science, Soul

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Fall”, p.36, Cosimo, Inc.

• [For men] to feel their souls withering within them, unthanked, to find their whole being sunk into an unrecognized abyss, to be counted off into a heap of mechanism numbered with its wheels, and weighed with its hammer strokes - this, nature bade not, - this, God blesses not, - this, humanity for no long time is able to endure.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Long, Political

  John Ruskin (2012). “Selections From the Works of John Ruskin”, p.215, tredition

• All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Greatness, Expression

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.188

• The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

  John Ruskin

  Thinking, People, Soul

  Modern Painters vol. 3, pt. 4 "Of Modern Landscape" (1856)

• Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

  John Ruskin

  Education, School, Soul

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.216

• There is a certain period of the soul-culture when it begins to interfere with some of characters of typical beauty belonging to the bodily frame, the stirring of the intellect wearing down the flesh, and the moral enthusiasm burning its way out to heaven, through the emaciation of the earthen vessel; and there is, in this indication of subduing the mortal by the immortal part, an ideal glory of perhaps a purer and higher range than that of the more perfect material form. We conceive, I think, more nobly of the weak presence of Paul than of, the fair and ruddy countenance of David.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Character, Thinking

• It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.

  John Ruskin

  Cutting, Soul, Doe

  John Ruskin (1866). “The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic, and War”, p.194

• No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Soul, Lessons

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.144

• You may sell your work, but not your soul.

  John Ruskin

  Soul, May, Your Soul

  "A Calendar of Wisdom". Book by Leo Tolstoy (1903-1910) translated by Peter Sekirin (Wisdom on August 31), 1997.

• If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if, being a figure painter, it is love of human beauty, and human soul that moves you--if, being a flower or animal painter, it is love, and wonder, and delight in petal and in limb that move you, then the Spirit is upon you, and the earth is yours, and the fullness thereof.

  John Ruskin

  Flower, Moving, Animal

  John Ruskin, Cook (1905). “Works”

• You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.

  John Ruskin

  Mean, Eye, Soul

  John Ruskin (1906). “The Works of John Ruskin”

• Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.

  John Ruskin

  Soul, Individuality, May

  John Ruskin (1905). “The Complete Works of John Ruskin”

• When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower; when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate, all their emotions become steady, deep, perpetual, and vivifying to the soul as the natural pulse to the body. But now, having no true business, we pour our whole masculine energy into the false business of money-making; and having no true emotion, we must have false emotions dressed up for us to play with, not innocently, as children with dolls, but guiltily and darkly.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Flower, Men

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.312, University of Virginia Press

• All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear and pure; not dead walls encompassing dead heaps of things, known and numbered, but running waters in the sweet wilderness of things unnumbered and unknown, conscious only of the living banks, on which they partly refresh and partly reflect the flowers, and so pass on.

  John Ruskin

  Running, Sweet, Wall

  John Ruskin (1860). “The Stones of Venice...”, p.58

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