Zitate von John Ruskin
Ein bekanntes Zitat von John Ruskin:
Es gibt kaum etwas auf dieser Welt, das nicht irgend jemand ein wenig schlechter machen und etwas billiger verkaufen könnte. Es ist unklug, zu viel zu bezahlen, aber es ist noch schlechter, zu wenig zu bezahlen. Wenn Sie zu viel bezahlen, verlieren Sie etwas Geld, das ist alles. Wenn Sie dagegen zu wenig bezahlen, verlieren Sie manchmal alles, da der gekaufte Gegenstand die ihm zugedachte Aufgabe nicht erfüllen kann.
Informationen über John Ruskin
Schriftsteller, Professor für Kunst in Oxford, Kunstkritiker, Philosoph (England, 1819 - 1900).
John Ruskin · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
John Ruskin wäre heute 205 Jahre, 7 Monate, 13 Tage oder 75.101 Tage alt.
Geboren am 08.02.1819 in London
Gestorben am 20.01.1900 in Brantwood
Sternzeichen: ♒ Wassermann
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Weitere 127 Zitate von John Ruskin
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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
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All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself, but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snowball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.
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All violent feelings . . . produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the 'Pathetic Fallacy'.
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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
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Cheerfulness is as natural to the heart of a man in strong health as color to his cheek; and wherever there is habitual gloom there must be either bad air, unwholesome food, improperly severe labor, or erring habits of life.
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Conceit may puff a man up, but can never prop him up.
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Consider what heavy responsibility lies upon you in your youth, to determine, among realities, by what you will be delighted, and, among imaginations, by whose you will be led.
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Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to any influence that will bring upon you any noble feeling.
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Doing is the great thing. For if, resolutely, people do what is right, in time they come to like doing it.
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Education is leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes men happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.
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Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
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Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
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Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
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Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
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Genius is only a superior power of seeing.
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God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.
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Government and co-operation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition the laws of death.
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Great nations write their autobiography in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art.
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.