John Ruskin quotes - page 9

He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. (John Ruskin)
Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are. View quote
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Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave. View quote
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The natural and right system respecting all labour is, that it should be paid at a fixed rate, but the good workman employed, and the bad workman unemployed. The false, unnatural, and destructive system is when the bad workman is allowed to offer his work at half-price, and either take the place of the good, or force him by his competition to work for an inadequate sum. View quote
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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. View quote
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My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. View quote
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We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: - the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, - the most unwise in proportion to their science. View quote
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You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. View quote
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We are to remember, in the first place, that the arrangement of colours and lines is an art analogous to the composition of music, and entirely independent of the representation of facts. View quote
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Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. There must be the will to produce a superior thing. View quote
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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave. (John Ruskin)
God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the place where He wishes us to be employed; and that employment is truly "our Father's business." View quote
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The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use. View quote
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How can man understand God, since he does not yet understand his own mind, with which he endeavors to understand Him? The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable - not concealed, but incomprehensible. It is a clear infinity - the darkness of the pure, unsearchable sea. View quote
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I choose my physician and my clergyman, thus indicating my sense of the quality of their work.” By all means, also, choose your bricklayer; that is the proper reward of the good workman, to be "chosen. View quote
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Whether for life or death, do your own work well. View quote
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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. View quote
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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. View quote
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On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong. View quote
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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered. View quote
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The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers but they rise behind her steps, not before them. (John Ruskin)
The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate. View quote
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The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them. View quote
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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right. View quote
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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. View quote
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