John RuskinThinkers

Anger is possible without sin only if one is angry with nothing but sin.

Anger is a sin, unless it is sin that one is angry at.

Architecture is at its haughtiest when it simple.

Architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Beauty is truth. Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Beauty is strongest in the most useless of things: peacocks and lilies, for instance.

The Book is divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.

Lying's essence is deception, not in words.

Praise is to be contrasted with pleasure in that one can trace the greatest efforts of the race to the love of praise, one can also trace its greatest catastrophes to the love to pleasure.

Science is related to art in that science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves while art deals exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

Science is related to art in that while science has to do with facts, art has to do with phenomena: as such, for science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts... and to art, facts are of use only as they lead to phenomena.

Seasickness is best cured by jumping into the sea.