John Ruskin Quotes About Labour

Quotes about: Labour

• Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base.

  John Ruskin

  Joy, Sorrow, Labour

  'Time and Tide' (1867) letter 5

• We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Names, Giving

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.180, University of Virginia Press

• Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

  John Ruskin

  Political, Doe, Politics

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.269, University of Virginia Press

• It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men - broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Men, Broken

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.180, University of Virginia Press

• Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.

  John Ruskin

  Giving, Cost, Produce

  John Ruskin (2016). “The Crown of Wild Olive”, p.190, John Ruskin

• It is perhaps the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfectionraise up a stately and unaccusable whole.

  John Ruskin

  School, Mind, Architecture

• Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

  John Ruskin

  Confused, Mean, Understanding

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.1

• ... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)

  John Ruskin

  Men, Hands, Tangible

  John Ruskin “The stones of Venice (cont'd) Seven lamps of architecture. Lectures on architecture and painting, delivered at Edinburgh in Nov. 1853. An inquiry into some of the conditions at present affecting the study of architecture in our schools”

• It is only by labour that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labour can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity.

  John Ruskin

  Work, Two, Healthy

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice -: The Sea Stories”, p.169, Cosimo, Inc.

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