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Accounts Quotes by John Ruskin
- You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with…
- Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.
- Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts…
- Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.
- The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
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