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Aesthetician Inspirational Quotes (705)

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The Bible is the one Book to which any thoughtful man may go with any honest question of life or destiny and find the answer of God by honest searching.
John Ruskin
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It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.
John Dewey
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Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
John Ruskin
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I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or in them, of a noble grotesque, and no test of comparative smallness or limitation, of one kind or another, more sure than the absence of grotesque invention, or incapability of understanding it.
John Ruskin
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Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.
Johann Gottfried Herder
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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
John Ruskin
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Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.
John Ruskin
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All traveling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity.
John Ruskin
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As a society becomes more enlightened, it realizes that it is responsible not to transmit and conserve the whole of its existing achievements, but only such as make for a better future society. The school is its chief agency for the accomplishment of this end.
John Dewey
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I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.
John Dewey
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The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to bluff.
John Dewey
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The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished.
Johann Gottfried Herder
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No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.
John Ruskin
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When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work.
John Ruskin
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We are only advancing in life, whose hearts are getting softer, our blood warmer, our brains quicker, and our spirits entering into living peace.
John Ruskin
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Teaching may be compared to selling commodities. No one can sell unless somebody buys.
John Dewey
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There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.
John Ruskin
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because they have withstood the tests of experiment and have emerged triumphant, were once speculative hypotheses.
John Dewey
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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
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Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
John Ruskin
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Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it.
John Ruskin
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Remember always, in painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter will be your manner, and the fewer your words and in painting, as in all the arts and acts of life the secret of high success will be found, not in a fretful and various excellence, but in a quiet singleness of justly chosen aim.
John Ruskin
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The activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an animal rather than educated like a human being. His instincts remain attached to their original objects of pain or pleasure. But to get happiness or to avoid the pain of failure he has to act in a way agreeable to others.
John Dewey
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Kant's position is extremely subtle - so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.
Roger Scruton
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