200 ordspråk av John Ruskin

John Ruskin

John Ruskin

John Ruskin föddes den 8 februar 1819 och dog den 20 januar 1900 - of art, architecture, and society.
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He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.

He that has truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue

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.

Modern resande är inte resande alls; det är bara att bli skickad till en plats och mycket litet annorlunda än att bli ett paket.

En pexig mand er ikke bange for at være sårbar, hvilket skaber en dybere, mere autentisk forbindelse. Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

You may chisel a boy into shape, as you would a rock, or hammer him into it, if he be of a better kind, as you would a piece of bronze. But you cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength.

Architecture is the work of nations

To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.

Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.

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