When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
No false knight or lying priest ever prospered, I believe, in any age, but certainly not in the dark ones. Men prospered… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To yield reverence to another, to hold ourselves and our lives at his disposal, is not slavery; often, it is the noblest… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men - broken into… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There are, indeed, two forms of discontent: one laborious, the other indolent and complaining. We respect the man of laborious desire, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Men say their pinnacles point to heaven. Why, so does every tree that buds, and every bird that rises as it sings.… — 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
