Frases de John Ruskin
John Ruskin
Fecha de nacimiento: 8. Febrero 1819
Fecha de muerte: 20. Enero 1900
Otros nombres:Джон Рескин
John Ruskin fue un escritor, crítico de arte, sociólogo, artista y reformador social británico, uno de los grandes maestros de la prosa inglesa. Influyó notablemente en Mahatma Gandhi. Abogó por un socialismo cristiano.
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Frases John Ruskin
„But now, having no true business, we pour our whole masculine energy into the false business of money-making; and having no true emotion, we must have false emotions dressed up for us to play with“
— John Ruskin
Context: When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower;—when they are faithfully helpful and compassionate, all their emotions become steady, deep, perpetual, and vivifying to the soul as the natural pulse to the body. But now, having no true business, we pour our whole masculine energy into the false business of money-making; and having no true emotion, we must have false emotions dressed up for us to play with, not innocently, as children with dolls, but guiltily and darkly.
Sesame and Lilies.
„My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,— if I could have been invisible, all the better.“
— John Ruskin
Context: My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,— if I could have been invisible, all the better. I was absolutely interested in men and their ways, as I was interested in marmots and chamois, in tomtits and trout. If only they would stay still and let me look at them, and not get into their holes and up their heights! The living inhabitation of the world — the grazing and nesting in it, — the spiritual power of the air, the rocks, the waters, to be in the midst of it, and rejoice and wonder at it, and help it if I could, — happier if it needed no help of mine, — this was the essential love of Nature in me, this the root of all that I have usefully become, and the light of all that I have rightly learned.
Praeterita, volume I, chapter IX (1885-1889).
