770 Quotes by John Ruskin

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

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

There is no law of history any more than of a kaleidoscope.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

Borrowers are nearly always ill-spenders, and it is with lent money that all evil is mainly done and all unjust war protracted.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

But I beg you to observe that there is a wide difference between being captains or governors of work, and taking the profits of it. It does not follow, because you are general of an army, that you are to take all the treasure, or land, it wins; (if it fight for treasure or land); neither, because you are king of a nation, that you are to consume all the profits of the nation's work.