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Human Quotes by John Ruskin
- Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable…
- All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be…
- Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
- ... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.
- The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as…
- Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.
- There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes…
- Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being…
- Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far…
- If it is the love of that which your work represents--if, being a landscape painter, it is love of hills and trees that moves you--if,…
- Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
- Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
- The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
- No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
- That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.
- The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds…
- No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle