John Ruskin Quotes
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Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.
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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
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Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.
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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
[Music]
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My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that discipline and patient, accurate resolve I owe not only much of my general power of taking pains, but the best part of my taste for literature.
[Mother]
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Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
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Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.
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No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
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No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
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No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side; no leaf is perfect in its lobes, and no branch in its symmetry. - All admit irregularity, as they imply change. - To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. - All things are better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment may be mercy.
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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
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No one can ask honestly or hope fully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.
[Temptation]
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No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.
[Love]
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No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or agreement; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin, - victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.
[Peace]
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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
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