InspiringQuotes

John Ruskin Quotes:

Ocupation: Art critic

Life: February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900

Birthday: February 8

Death: January 20

The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in.

- John Ruskin

topic: Animal, Promise, Delight, Semblance

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