"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts……" — John Ruskin
"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."
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404 Quotes by John Ruskin
John Ruskin has 404 quotes on this site.
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both…
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In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.
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Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was…
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To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
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When we build, let us think that we build forever.
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In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on…
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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
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Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
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Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by…
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Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.
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Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
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All other passions do occasional good; but when pride puts in its word everything goes wrong.
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The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this,…
— Joseph Henry
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My point is that it's incorrect to say that the Iraq policy isn't working. It is working. It is doing…
— Michael Parenti
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Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed…
— Thomas Carlyle
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What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest…
— Neil Postman
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For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive.…
— Audre Lorde
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In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.
— Noam Chomsky
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