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Man Quotes by John Ruskin
- When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a…
- 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…
- Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge…
- We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread…
- All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.
- A man is one whose body has been trained to be the ready servant of his mind; whose passions are trained to be the servants…
- Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
- Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there…
- The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the…
- Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I hear a young…
- The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.
- The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer…
- It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men - broken into small fragments and…
- 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…
- Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.
- Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.
- 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…
- To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving position or attracting…
- If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would…
- Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing…
- 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…
- Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health,…
- Whether we force the man's property from him by pinching his stomach, or pinching his fingers, makes some difference anatomically; morally, none whatsoever.
- The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle