John Ruskin Berühmte Zitate
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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'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
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Sesame and Lilies, lecture I: Sesame. Of King's Treasuries, section 3 (1864-1865)
Quelle: The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), Chapter VII: The Lamp of Obedience, section 1.
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 134.
Quelle: The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), Chapter IV: The Lamp of Beauty, section 19.
Mornings in Florence, part III, section 49 (1875).
“An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.”
Fors Clavigera, letter xxxiv (October 1873).
Fors Clavigera (1871-1878 and 1880-1884)
Lecture V, section 82.
The Eagle's Nest (1872)
“Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.”
Lecture III
Lectures on Art (1870)
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 122.
Volume III, part IV, chapter XII (1856).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)
Volume V, part VIII, chapter 1, section 4 (1860).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)
Known as the Common Law of Business Balance, this quotation has been widely attributed to Ruskin but has never been sourced to any of his works.
[Shapiro, Fred R., The Yale Book of Quotations, 2006, Yale University Press, New Haven, 657]
Disputed
Fors Clavigera, letter xxxvii, (1 January 1874).
Fors Clavigera (1871-1878 and 1880-1884)
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 438.
The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture I: Work, sections 23-24 (1866).
Time and Tide, letter VIII (1867).
Volume III, part IV, chapter XVI (1856).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)
Cestus of Aglaia, chapter VI, section 72 (1865-66).
Preface to the first edition, 1865
The Ethics of the Dust (1875)
“The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.”
Volume III
The Stones of Venice (1853)
Volume II, chapter VI, section 62.
The Stones of Venice (1853)
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 405.
Lecture V, section 88.
The Eagle's Nest (1872)
Volume III, part IV, chapter VII (1856).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)
Fors Clavigera, letter lxxvi (4 March 1877).
Fors Clavigera (1871-1878 and 1880-1884)
Volume V, part VIII, chapter I, section 2 (1860).
Modern Painters (1843-1860)
