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Famous John Ruskin Quotes
“We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.”
“A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.”
“Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not.”
“Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.”
“Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.”
“When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.”
“Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.”
“Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.”
“He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.”
“One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.”
“All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.”
“It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.”
“See that your children be taught, not only the labors of the earth, but the loveliness of it.”
“Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.”
“There are many religions, but there is only one morality.”
“They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.”
“To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.”
“The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.”
“The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.”
“The Spirit power begins in directing the Animal power to other than egoistic ends.”