John Ruskin Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.

  John Ruskin

  Education, Justice, Hunger And Thirst

• If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

  John Ruskin

  Design, Vices, Virtue

  John Ruskin (1873). “Modern Painters”, p.102

• The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

  John Ruskin

  Imagination, Intuition, Essentials

  John Ruskin (2013). “Ruskin as Literary Critic”, p.124, Cambridge University Press

• Anything which elevates the mind is sublime. Greatness of matter, space, power, virtue or beauty, are all sublime.

  John Ruskin

  Greatness, Space, Mind

• Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.

  John Ruskin

  Perfect, Degrees, Sin

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.421

• Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

  John Ruskin

  Goddess, Virtue, Getting Along

• The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

  John Ruskin

  Beauty, Animal, Intellectual

  John Ruskin (1849). “Of ideas of beauty”, p.97

• All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is that straightness of back.

  John Ruskin

  Real, Thinking, Essentials

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Ethics of the Dust”, p.116, John Ruskin

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