He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace. And the men who have this life in them are the true lords or kings of the earth they, and they only. John Ruskin More Quotes by John Ruskin More Quotes From John Ruskin The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulness, of stern watching, of mysterious sympathy... which we feel in walls that have long been washed by the passing waves of humanity. John Ruskin wall humanity long The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist. John Ruskin chemist practicals steps I do not believe that any peacock envies another peacock his tail, because every peacock is persuaded that his own tail is the finest in the world. The consequence of this is that peacocks are peaceable birds. John Ruskin envy bird believe Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty. John Ruskin labor-day evil work Cookery 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 food mean art No 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 stronger sight men What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses? John Ruskin horse book thinking The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque. John Ruskin literature men art Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. John Ruskin teaching literature complaining Civilization is the making of civil persons. John Ruskin persons literature civilization We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men. John Ruskin names giving men The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work. John Ruskin able education meaningful See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it. John Ruskin teaching science children Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all. John Ruskin willing divine action Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base. John Ruskin labour sorrow joy There are many religions, but there is only one morality. John Ruskin morality religion The best thing in life aren't things. John Ruskin best-things values life Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves. John Ruskin deals science They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame. John Ruskin furniture blame praise Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating. John Ruskin clumsiness darkness evil
