“You may trust to the truth of my sympathy; but you must remember that I am engaged in the investigation of enormous… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Humanity and Immortality consist neither in reason, nor in love; not in the body, nor in the animation of the heart of… — 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
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy.Bothyourreligionand policy must be basedon it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Superstition, in all times and among all nations, is the fear of a spirit whose passions are those of a man, whose… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Now the basest thought possible concerning man is, that he has no spiritual nature; and the foolishest misunderstanding of him possible is,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any. Nothing… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something... To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one. — 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
