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John Ruskin Quotes - Page 15

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To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

Speak, Intimidation, Penalties

John Ruskin (2015). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.42, John Ruskin

Repose demands for its expression the implied capability of its opposite,--energy.

Opposites, Expression, Energy

John Ruskin (1848). “Modern Painters ...: pt. 3. Of the imaginative and theoretic faculties. 4th ed”, p.62

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

Character, House, Design

Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is.

Dirty, Drawing, Soldier

John Ruskin (1869). “Modern Painters: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt. 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relation: Of invention formal. Of invention spiritual”, p.288

Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.

Hurt, Fall, Heart

John Ruskin (1862). “pt. I. Of genral principles. pt. II. Of truth. v. 4. pt. v. Of mountain beauty”, p.14

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

Mean, Purpose, Done

You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.

Girl, Flower, Fall

John Ruskin (1894). “Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin”

In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

Work, Men, Order

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1860). “The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion: Selected from the Works of John Ruskin...”, p.429

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

Children, Lying, Heart

John Ruskin (1872). “The Works of John Ruskin”, p.109

You may sell your work, but not your soul.

Soul, May, Your Soul

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

Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

Science, People, Quiet

John Ruskin (1871). “Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain. Index”, p.37

There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn.

Thinking, Dawn, Solemnity

Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.

Greatness, Mind, Affectionate

John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.186

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.

Voice, Speech, Graves

John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.370

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.

Art, Fall, Pride

The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.

God, Nature, Science

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.24, University of Virginia Press

The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.

Omnipotence, Heaven, Mind

John Ruskin (1834). “Modern Painters”, p.324

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

Art, Mirrors, Wells

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.

Thinking, People, Soul

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

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.

Kind, Persons

John Ruskin (1873). “Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain”

It is among children only, and as children only, that you will find medicine for your healing and true wisdom for your teaching.

Children, Teaching, Healing

"Sesame and Lilies".

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

Ignorance, Profound, Wells

John Ruskin (1856). “Modern Painters”, p.37

My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to be in the midst of it, and rejoice and wonder at it, and help it if I could, - happier if it needed no help of mine, - this was the essential love of Nature in me, this the root of all that I have usefully become, and the light of all that I have rightly learned.

Nature, Roots, Light

John Ruskin, David Carrier, Walter Pater, Adrian Stokes (1997). “England and Its Aesthetes: Biography and Taste”, p.44, Psychology Press

All the other passions do occasional good, but whenever pride puts in its word, everything goes wrong, and what it might really be desirable to do, quietly and innocently, it is mortally dangerous to do, proudly.

Passion, Pride, Occasional

"Modern Painters".

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Fake People, Judging, Feelings

John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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