01UndatedReading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creaturesJohn Ruskin / quote ↗
02UndatedNo changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.John Ruskin / quote ↗
03UndatedModern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.John Ruskin / quote ↗
04UndatedSo far, therefore, as the science of exchange relates to the advantage of one of the exchanging persons only, it is founded on the ignorance or incapacity of the opposite person. . . . It is therefore a science founded on nescience. . . . This science, alone of sciences, must, by all available means, promulgate and prolong its opposite nescience. . . . It is therefore peculiarly and alone science of darkness.John Ruskin / quote ↗
05UndatedTaste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.John Ruskin / quote ↗
06UndatedI believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great men have a curious feeling that the greatness is not of them, but through them. And they see something divine in every other man and are endlessly, foolishly, incredibly merciful.John Ruskin / quote ↗
07UndatedCookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.John Ruskin / quote ↗
08UndatedAnd whether consciously or not, you must be in many a heart enthroned: queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond, which bows itself, and will forever bow, before the myrtle crown, and the stainless scepter of womanhood.John Ruskin / quote ↗
09UndatedTo be content in utter darkness and ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love light and find knowledge must always be right. Yet wherever pride has any share in the work, even knowledge and light may be ill pursued. Knowledge is good, and light is good: yet man perished in seeking knowledge, and moths perish in seeking light; and if we, who are crushed before the moth, will not accept such mystery as is needful to us, we shall perish in like manner.John Ruskin / quote ↗
10UndatedThe greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion--all in one.John Ruskin / quote ↗
11UndatedOccult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre of them. And the guilty Thieves of Europe, the real sources of all deadly war in it, are the CapitalistsJohn Ruskin / quote ↗
12UndatedNo human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. 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 Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.John Ruskin / quote ↗
14UndatedWhat we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.John Ruskin / quote ↗
15UndatedLet us then understand at once that change or variety is as much a necessity to the human heart and brain in buildings as in books; that there is no merit, though there is some occasional use, in monotony; and that we must no more expect to derive either pleasure or profit from an architecture whose ornaments are of one pattern, and whose pillars are of one proportion, than we should of a universe in which the clouds were all of one shape, and the trees all of one shape.John Ruskin / quote ↗
16UndatedIt is evident that the chief feeling induced by woody country is one of reverence for its antiquity. There is a quiet melancholy about the decay of the patriarchal trunks, which is enhanced by the green and elastic vigor of the young saplings; the noble form of the forest aisles, and the subdued light which penetrates their entangled boughs, combine to add to the impression; and the whole character of the scene is calculated to excite conservative feeling. The man who could remain a radical in a wood country is a disgrace to his species.John Ruskin / quote ↗
17UndatedOne of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary.John Ruskin / quote ↗
19UndatedAll that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.John Ruskin / quote ↗
21UndatedFine art is that in which the hand the head and the heart of man go together.John Ruskin / quote ↗
22UndatedRemember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless peacocks and lilies for instance.John Ruskin / quote ↗
23UndatedThe beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.John Ruskin / quote ↗
24UndatedSunshine is delicious rain is refreshing wind braces us snow is exhilarating there is no such thing as bad weather only different kinds of good weather.John Ruskin / quote ↗
