Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force. John Ruskin More Quotes by John Ruskin More Quotes From John Ruskin It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little. John Ruskin too-much littles pay 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 opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do. John Ruskin humility relationship mean Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade. John Ruskin trade live-by men 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 writing is. John Ruskin real children art When we build, let us think that we build forever. John Ruskin bad-ass badass thinking You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil. John Ruskin evil winning peace Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books. John Ruskin reading life book Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder. John Ruskin music teacher order There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and poor: there is an idle class - weak, wicked, and miserable - among both rich and poor. John Ruskin wicked strong class So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present. John Ruskin society character children I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only. John Ruskin evil people thinking To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. John Ruskin trust truth children 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 his will; who enjoys the beautiful, loves truth, hates wrong, loves to do good, and respects others as himself. John Ruskin passion hate beautiful It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry talking, and the statue, the picture, and the musical composition are poetry acting. Milton and Goethe, at their desks, were not more truly poets than Phidias with his chisel, Raphael at his easel, or deaf Beethoven bending over his piano, inventing and producing strains, which he himself could never hope to hear. John Ruskin piano talking art Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. John Ruskin color god men It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride. John Ruskin someone-you-love useless pride Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. John Ruskin true-happiness anticipation men To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions. John Ruskin knowledge-and-power sight book Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor. John Ruskin political wish long God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do. John Ruskin wish giving father
