John Ruskin Quotes
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Don't just look at buildings ... watch them.
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If you do not wish for His kingdom do not pray for it. But if you do you must do more than pray for it, you must work for it.
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You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.
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God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.
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I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.
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The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.
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Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.
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The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.
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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
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There are many religions, but there is only one morality.
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So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.
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Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.
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Sky is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.
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There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature if not of the soul.
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In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.
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Greatness is the aggregation of minuteness; nor can its sublimity be felt truthfully by any mind unaccustomed to the affectionate watching of what is least.
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No day is without its innocent hope.
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The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.
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I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as may be within and without: . . . with such differences as might suit and express each man's character and occupation, and partly his history.
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Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.
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Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.
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Morality does not depend on religion.
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Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.
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The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart; that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.