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In any case his judgment and set of values acting alone or through his assistants determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant and what is not.
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress and what by a dome.
Quotes By John Ruskin
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Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact than the richest...
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Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools to be precise and...
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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles but producing them. They live by...
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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips others by their restlessness...
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There is never vulgarity in a whole truth however commonplace. It may be...
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In order that people may be happy in their work these three things are...
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No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its...
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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances and...
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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or...
Quotes About Nature
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It's human nature to be curious about people and to be more curious about...
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I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I...
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Nature says women are human beings men have made religions to deny it....
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There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature.
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The fans know what's happened to me over the past couple of years. I lost my...
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Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of...
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The historic ascent of humanity taken as a whole may be summarized as a...
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Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature a soul why should it be...
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Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual...