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.

Quote by John Ruskin

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The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but...

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but...

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and...

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and...

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but...

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but...

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes....

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes....

A book worth reading is worth buying.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is...

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is...

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil;...

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil;...

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not...

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not...

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the...

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the...

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste...

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste...

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed:...

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed:...

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the...

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the...

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but...

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but...

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just...

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just...

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has...

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has...

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in...

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in...

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he...

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he...

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform...

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform...