All John Ruskin Quotes
- At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we… Agree
- Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use. Animal
- Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into… Brim
- When I have been unhappy, I have heard an opera... and it seemed the shrieking of winds; when I am happy, a sparrow's chirp is… Been
- Architecture is the work of nations Architecture
- Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house. Character
- In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon… Attempt
- A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make… Art
- All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul… According
- To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led… All
- Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Anticipation
- He who is not actively kind is cruel! Actively
- High art consists neither in altering, nor in improving nature; but in seeking throughout nature for 'whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure;' in… Altering
- It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry… Acting
- This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror,… All
- Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as… Beginning
- The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep… Age
- The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist. Chemist
- I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in… Any
- Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty. Evil