“Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.”
— John Ruskin
Author: John Ruskin
Category: age
Tags: age, John Ruskin
“No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.”
— John Ruskin
Author: John Ruskin
Category: society
Tags: society, John Ruskin
“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.”
— John Ruskin
Author: John Ruskin
Category: art
Tags: art, John Ruskin
“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”
— John Ruskin
Author: John Ruskin
Category: science
Tags: science, John Ruskin
“It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.”
— John Ruskin
Author: John Ruskin
Category: art
Tags: art, John Ruskin
“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.”
— John Ruskin
Author: John Ruskin
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, John Ruskin
“The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.”
— John Ruskin
Author: John Ruskin
Category: education
Tags: education, John Ruskin
“Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.”
— John Ruskin
Author: John Ruskin
Category: experience
Tags: experience, John Ruskin
“All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.”
— John Ruskin
Author: John Ruskin
Category: work
Tags: work, John Ruskin
“Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.”
— John Ruskin
Author: John Ruskin
Category: teacher
Tags: teacher, John Ruskin
“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”
— John Ruskin
Author: John Ruskin
Category: truth
Tags: truth, John Ruskin