Tag: John Ruskin
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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 work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
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A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
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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.
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All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
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Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.
John Ruskin