John Ruskin Quotes - Page 7

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• Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

  John Ruskin

  Journey, Light, Hiking

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• 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

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• The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

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  Beauty, Appreciation, Noble

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.160

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• Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

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  Rude, Stories, Records

  'The Seven Lamps of Architecture' (1849) ch. 6 'The Lamp of Memory' 7

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• Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.

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  Watches, Looks, Architecture

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• Never has interest in art been so high, and never has quality been so low.

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  Art, Quality, Lows

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• Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

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  People, Literature, Enjoyment

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• Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

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  Devil, Chance, Obedience

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• Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book.

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  Sweet, Book, Honey

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.306, University of Virginia Press

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• What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

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  Wealth, Certain, Well Being

  John Ruskin (19??). “Works”

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• Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

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  Music, Teacher, Order

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• You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.

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  Time, Flames, Teeth

  John Ruskin (2006). “A Joy for Ever, And Its Price in the Market”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When we build, let us think that we build forever.

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  Badass, Bad Ass, Thinking

  Seven Lamps of Architecture "The Lamp of Memory" sec. 10 (1849)

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• The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

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  Strength, Country, Don't Give Up

  John Ruskin (188?). “Works: Fors clavigera”

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• Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

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  Men, Anticipation, True Happiness

  John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

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• the art of becoming 'rich', in the common sense, is not absolutely nor finally the art of accumulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbour shall have less. In accurate terms, it is 'the art of establishing the maximum inequality in your own favour'.

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  Art, Common Sense, Becoming

  John Ruskin (1938). “Unto this last: and other essays”

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• The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.

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  Learning, Knowledge, People

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.275, University of Virginia Press

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• Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him.

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  Brother, Hate, Justice

  John Ruskin (1866). “The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War”, p.28

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• The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

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  Ignorance, Responsibility

  John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.66, John Ruskin

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• No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

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  Hope, Temptation, Determined

  John Ruskin (1908). “Complete Works of John Ruskin”

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• Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

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  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "The Works of John Ruskin: The crown of wild olive".

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• Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or industry has been in error.

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  Errors, Want, Degradation

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• Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

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  Life, Art, Political

  "Lectures on Art: Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870".

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• That man is always happy who is in the presence of something which he cannot know to the full, which he is always going on to know.

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  Men, Always Happy, Knows

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.320

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• The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

  John Ruskin

  Believe, Critics, Agree

  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”, p.11

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