I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is only the basest writer who cannot speak of the sea without talking of "raging waves," "remorseless floods," "ravenous billows," etc.;… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“You may trust to the truth of my sympathy; but you must remember that I am engaged in the investigation of enormous religious and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
