All John Ruskin Quotes
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
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It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
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I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
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The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.
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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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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
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There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
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Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
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