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Weder Verleumdung noch Verrat richten den meisten Schaden in der Welt an, weil sie fortwährend niedergekämpft werden. Es ist die glitzernde und sanft ausgesprochene Lüge; die freundliche Ungenauigkeit; der einschmeichelnde Trugschluß; die patriotische Lüge des Historikers; die vorsorgliche Lüge des Staatsmannes; die eifernde Lüge des Parteipolitikers; die barmherzige Lüge des Freundes und die leichtfertige Lüge jedes Menschen gegen sich selbst, die den schwarzen, geheimnisvollen Trauerflor über die Menschen breiten.
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, 1 Monat, 21 Tage oder 74.925 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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However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.
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I believe that the first test of a truly great man is his humility.
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I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
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I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this: Was it done with enjoyment-was the carver happy while he was about it?
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I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
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I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
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If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, "Behold it was very good."
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In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
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In order that people my be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
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In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.
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It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born.
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It is nothing to give pension and cottage to the widow who has lost her son; it is nothing to give food and medicine to the workman who has broken his arm, or the decrepit woman wasting in sickness. But it is something to use your time and strength to war with the waywardness and thoughtlessness of mankind; to keep the erring workman in your service till you have made him an unerring one, and to direct your fellow - merchant to the opportunity which his judgment would have lost.
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It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country, because he has deserved well of his country.
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Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.
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Life is a magic vase filled to the brim; so made that you cannot dip into it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it - drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charitiy and it overflows love.
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Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.
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Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought - proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.
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Man's true remuneration is not what he earns from his work but what he becomes through it.
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Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous - to be this is indeed to be great in life.
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Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.