The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one. — 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
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits… — 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
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
Butforme, theAlps and their peoplewerealikebeautiful in their snow, and their humanity; and I wanted, neither for them nor myself, sight of any… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The great cry that rises from our manufacturing cities, louder than their furnace blast, is all in very deed for this, that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent… — 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
“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
