John Ruskin Quotes About Literature

• Cuando un hombre se encierra en sí mismo, forma un paquete bastante pequeño.

  John Ruskin

  Motivational, Witty, Attitude

• No hay casi nada en el mundo que algún hombre no pueda hacer un poco peor y vender un poco más barato, y la gente que sólo tiene en cuenta el precio es la presa legítima de este hombre.

  John Ruskin

  Inspiración, Hombres, Personas

• The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

  John Ruskin

  Women, Soul, Doe

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.91, University of Virginia Press

• No existe el mal tiempo, sino distintos tipos de buen tiempo.

  John Ruskin

  Cambio, Correr, Día de lluvia

  "El uso de la vida". Libro de John Lubbock, 1er barón de Avebury. Capítulo 4: "Recreación", 1894.

• Las montañas son el principio y el fin de todo paisaje natural.

  John Ruskin

  Climbing, Hiking, Mountain

  Modern Painters vol. 4, pt. 5, ch. 20 (1856)

• All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Soul, Literature

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.312, John Ruskin

• La fuerza y el poder de un país dependen absolutamente de la cantidad de hombres y mujeres buenos que haya en él.

  John Ruskin

  Strength, Country, Don't Give Up

  John Ruskin (188?). “Works: Fors clavigera”

• 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

  Uplifting, Stars, Sky

• Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

  John Ruskin

  Rude, Stories, Records

  'The Seven Lamps of Architecture' (1849) ch. 6 'The Lamp of Memory' 7

• It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

  John Ruskin

  Money, Purpose, Literature

• He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Ideas, Numbers

  Modern Painters vol. 1, pt. 1, ch. 2 (1843)

• La única felicidad verdadera del hombre es vivir con la esperanza de algo que ganará. Reverenciar algo para ser adorado por él, y amar algo para ser apreciado por él, para siempre.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Men, Forever

  John Ruskin (1907). "La religión de Ruskin: La vida y las obras de John Ruskin; un estudio biográfico y antológico"

• Es curioso lo poco que la gente sabe en general sobre el cielo. Es la parte de la creación en la que la naturaleza ha hecho más por complacer al hombre.

  John Ruskin

  Naturaleza, Hombres, Cielo

  "Pintores modernos".

• The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Literature, Vulgar

  John Ruskin (1888). “Modern Painters (Complete)”, p.798, Library of Alexandria

• There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

  John Ruskin

  Flower, Literature

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.367, University of Virginia Press

• 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

  Ideas, Literature, Way

  'The Two Paths' (1859) lecture 2

• To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

  John Ruskin

  Death, Quality, Literature

  "Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain".

• How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

  John Ruskin

  Book, Long, People

  John Ruskin (2006). “Sesame and Lillies: Three Lectures”, p.75, Cosimo, Inc.

• It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

  John Ruskin

  Sacrifice, Simple, Skills

• Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

  John Ruskin

  Education, School, Soul

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.216

• All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

  John Ruskin

  Fake People, Judging, Feelings

  John Ruskin (2013). “Selections and Essays”, p.117, Courier Corporation

• The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Years, Literature

  Time and Tide Letter 13 (1867)

• Todo lo que llamamos ideal en el arte griego o en cualquier otro arte, porque para nosotros es falso y visionario, era, para sus creadores, verdadero y existente.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Greek, Visionaries

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.58, University of Virginia Press

• Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

  John Ruskin

  Teaching, Complaining, Literature

• Maldecir es invocar la asistencia de un espíritu para que te ayude a infligir sufrimiento. Jurar, en cambio, es invocar únicamente el testimonio de un espíritu sobre una afirmación que se desea hacer.

  John Ruskin

  Funny, Hands, World Suffering

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