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John Ruskin war ein britischer Schriftsteller, Maler, Kunsthistoriker und Sozialphilosoph.

✵ 8. Februar 1819 – 20. Januar 1900  •  Andere Namen Джон Рескин
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„Es gibt kaum etwas auf dieser Welt, das nicht irgend jemand ein wenig schlechter machen und etwas billiger verkaufen könnte, und die Menschen, die sich nur am Preis orientieren, werden gerechte Beute solcher Machenschaften.“

John Ruskin

zitiert z. B. bei forbriger.com http://www.forbriger.com/html/ruskin.pdf <br class="br">Original engl.: There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person&#x27;s lawful prey.) - Untersuchung des Zitats von Prof. George P. Landow, Brown University, USA: victorianweb.org http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/quotation.html (Stand 07/07 <br class="br">Fälschlich zugeschrieben

John Ruskin: Zitate auf Englisch

“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”

John Ruskin

Also misattributed to John Steinbeck.
Quelle: The Works of John Ruskin: The stones of Venice, v. 1-3

“All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.”

John Ruskin

Quelle: The Elements of Drawing

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”

John Ruskin

Widely attributed on the Internet to John Ruskin; see this Google search https://www.google.com/search?num=50&amp;q=%2B%22When+love+and+skill+work+together%2C+expect+a+masterpiece.%22+%2B%22John+Ruskin%22+-%22Charles+Reade%22&amp;oq=%2B%22When+love+and+skill+work+together%2C+expect+a+masterpiece.%22+%2B%22John+Ruskin%22+-%22Charles+Reade%22&amp;gs_l=serp.12...143064.148395.0.150598.2.2.0.0.0.0.108.196.1j1.2.0....0...1c.1.64.serp..0.0.0.JURsIFvRl34 for thousands of pages containing the quote AND &quot;John Ruskin&quot; but NOT &quot;Charles Reade&quot;.<br><br>This is actually from Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade. <br class="br">Misattributed

“There is no wealth but life.”

John Ruskin buch The King of the Golden River

Quelle: The King of the Golden River

“Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.”

John Ruskin

A Joy for Ever, note 6 (1857).
Kontext: For certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them.

“Remember that the most beautiful things in life are often the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”

John Ruskin buch The Stones of Venice

Volume I, chapter II, section 17.
The Stones of Venice (1853)
Variante: Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.
Kontext: You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.

“There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.”

John Ruskin

According to Ruskin scholar George P. Landow, there is no evidence that this quotation or its variants can be found in any of Ruskin's works.
[Landow, George P., A Ruskin Quotation?, VictorianWeb.org, 2007-07-27, http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/ruskin/quotation.html, 2013-01-07]
Disputed

“You may either win your peace, or buy it, win it, by resistance to evil, buy it, by compromise with evil.”

John Ruskin

The Work of Iron, in Nature, Art, and Policy http://books.google.com/books?id=uYEM0Sd18DsC&amp;q=&amp;quot;you+may+either+win+your+peace+or+buy+it%22+%22win+it+by+resistance+to+evil%22+%22buy+it+by+compromise+with+evil&amp;quot;&amp;pg=PA196#v=onepage Lecture at Tunbridge Wells (February 16, 1858).

“When we build, let us think that we build for ever.”

John Ruskin buch The Seven Lamps of Architecture

Quelle: The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), Chapter VI: The Lamp of Memory, section 10.

“Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.”

John Ruskin buch The Stones of Venice

Volume II, chapter VI, section 24 http://books.google.com/books?id=AwICAAAAYAAJ&amp;q=%22Of+human+work+none+but+what+is+bad+can+be+perfect+in+its+own+bad+way%22&amp;pg=PA189#v=onepage. <br class="br">The Stones of Venice (1853)

“Of all God's gifts to the sight of man, colour is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.”

John Ruskin buch The Stones of Venice

Volume II, chapter V, section 30.
The Stones of Venice (1853)

“All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the "Pathetic Fallacy."”

John Ruskin buch Modern Painters

Volume III, part IV, chapter XII (1856).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)
Variante: All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

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