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Aesthetician Inspirational Quotes (705)

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We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.
John Dewey
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No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
John Ruskin
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It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.
John Ruskin
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The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.
John Ruskin
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Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
John Dewey
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Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order
John Dewey
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See! This our fathers did for us.
John Ruskin
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Calmly take what ill betideth Patience wins the crown at length: Rich repayment him abideth Who endures in quiet strength. Brave the tamer of the lion Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise Bravest he who rules his passions, Who his own impatience sways.
Johann Gottfried Herder
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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
John Ruskin
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In all things that live there are certain irregularities, and deficiencies which are not only signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry.
John Ruskin
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Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.
John Ruskin
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The child who desires education will be bettered by it the child who dislikes it disgraced.
John Ruskin
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Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.
John Ruskin
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My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.
Bernard Bolzano
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In order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
John Ruskin
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It is impossible to tell you the perfect sweetness of the lips and closed eyes, nor the solemnity of the seal of death which is set upon the whole figure. It is, in every way, perfect--truth itself, but truth selected with inconceivable refinement of feeling.
John Ruskin
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Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth. In this way, the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer-in of the true Kingdom of God.
John Dewey
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But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the occurrence that is explained, not the thing itself.
John Dewey
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Why is one man richer than another? Because he is more industrious, more persevering and more sagacious.
John Ruskin
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There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last
Roger Scruton
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The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
Roger Scruton
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Life begins at age forty.
Walter B. Pitkin
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Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.
John Ruskin
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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
John Ruskin
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