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John Ruskin

John Ruskin

English art critic

Lived from: 1819 - 1900

Category: Media Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 8 february 1819 Died: 20 january 1900

  • An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
  • No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
  • What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
  • Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
  • Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.
  • It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.
  • Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.
  • 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.
  • No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
  • There is really no such thing as bad weather, only differend kinds of good weather.
  • 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.
  • You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
  • Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
  • Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
  • No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.
  • Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
  • Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
  • Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
  • Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
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  • The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this - that we manufacture everything there except men.
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  • In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them.
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  • In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.
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  • Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
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  • Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
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  • Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.
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  • No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.
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  • The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
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  • They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
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  • To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.
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What are the most famous quotes from John Ruskin?

The two most famous quotes from John Ruskin are:

  • "An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men."
  • "The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this - that we manufacture everything there except men."

When did John Ruskin live?

John Ruskin was born in 1819 and died in the year 1900.