Zitate von John Ruskin
Ein bekanntes Zitat von John Ruskin:
Geduld ist die Wurzel aller Freuden und aller Fähigkeiten. Die Hoffnung selbst hört auf, ein Glück zu sein, wenn sich die Ungeduld zu ihr gesellt.
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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Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.
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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
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No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.
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No peace was ever won from fate by subterfuge or agreement; no peace is ever in store for any of us, but that which we shall win by victory over shame or sin - victory over the sin that oppresses, as well as over that which corrupts.
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No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
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Nobody cares much at heart about Titian; only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.
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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.
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On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.
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Pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent efforts.
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
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Soldiers of the ploughshare as well as soldiers of the sword.
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
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Thackeray settled like a meat-fly on whatever one had got for dinner, and made one sick of it.
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The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right thing, but enjoy the right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge; not merely pure, but to love purity; not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.
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The first duty of a State is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated, till it attain years of discretion.
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The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did not want it, it would be of no use to you.
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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world . . . To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
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The highest reward for a person's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
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The moment a man can really do his work, he becomes speechless about it; all words are idle to him; all theories. Does a bird need to theorize about building its nest, or boast of it when built? All good work is essentially done that way; without hesitation; without difficulty; without boasting.