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John Ruskin

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Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.


— John Ruskin


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You can only possess beauty through understanding it.


— John Ruskin


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The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion--all in one.


— John Ruskin


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To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty


— John Ruskin


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Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.


— John Ruskin


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The majesty of nature depends upon the force of the human spirit.


— John Ruskin


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Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.


— John Ruskin


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If some people see angels where others only see empty space, let them paint the angels; only let not anybody else think they can paint an angel too, on any calculated principles of the angelic.


— John Ruskin


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All great art is praise.


— John Ruskin


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Remember that the most beautifull things in the world are the most useless.


— John Ruskin


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Ruskin lectured widely in the 1860s giving the Rede lecture at the University of Cambridge in 1867 for example. John James had sent the piece to Turner who did not wish it to be publiJohn Ruskind.

Today his ideas and concerns are widely recognised as having anticipated interest in environmentalism sustainability and craft. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture myth to ornithology literature to education and botany to political economy.

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