It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity. John Ruskin More Quotes by John Ruskin More Quotes From John Ruskin We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind. John Ruskin creation-of-man passion men One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live. John Ruskin dying doe death All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own. John Ruskin inspirational-life men art Our large trading cities bear to me very nearly the aspect of monastic establishments in which the roar of the mill-wheel and the crane takes the place of other devotional music, and in which the worship of Mammon and Moloch is conducted with a tender reverence and an exact propriety; the merchant rising to his Mammon matins, with the self-denial of an anchorite, and expiating the frivolities into which he maybe beguiled in the course of the day by late attendance at Mammon vespers. John Ruskin rising cities self Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places. John Ruskin hue light add A splendour of miscellaneous spirits. John Ruskin splendour venice spirit Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses. John Ruskin thrones real men Order and system are nobler things than power. John Ruskin order No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood. John Ruskin responsible individual rain The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work. John Ruskin charity law bread If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity. John Ruskin virtue design vices I know well that happiness is in little things. John Ruskin little-things wells littles People cannot live by lending money to one another. John Ruskin lending money people Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent. John Ruskin progress-and-change essentials perfect To cultivate sympathy you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them; and to cultivate admiration, you must be among beautiful things and looking at them. John Ruskin admiration beautiful thinking It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior. John Ruskin matter appreciation men It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation. John Ruskin bears character two Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age. John Ruskin brave age country Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena. John Ruskin use science art The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality. John Ruskin pride art fall
