#thing

I didn't really have any interest in producing anything. ↗

— Mark Ruffalo

#anything #i #interest #producing #really

A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. ↗

— John Ruskin

#pay #thing #worth #you

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting. ↗

— John Ruskin

#diminishing #done #heretofore #i #landscape

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. ↗

— John Ruskin

#consists #everything #nothing #perfection #plainly

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

— John Ruskin

#does #ever #greatest #greatest thing #human

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also. ↗

— John Ruskin

#also #give #nothing #thought #unless

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#else #freely #living #more #more than anything

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#avoid #beyond #goes #insofar #keep

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#far #friendly #happiness #hostile #interest

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#end #paradoxical #philosophy #point #seem