 I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one...  Art and Life: A Ruskin Anthology - Page 553by John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 593 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Stefan Horlacher - Visualization in literature - 1998 - 384 pages
...verstorbenem Gatten gegenüber. 2 Von Augenmagie und Seelenspiegelei zu Panoptismus und Voyeurismus The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and teil what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds ofpeople can talkfor one who can think, but thousands can... | |
 | Patrick D. Murphy, Terry Gifford, Katsunori Yamazato - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 520 pages
...in which Ruskin's achievement is crucial to the prose tradition. The first is in his emphasis "that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something" (p. 404), and in his own descriptions of mountains and rocks and water and clouds. The second is in... | |
 | Phil Macnaghten, John Urry - Social Science - 1998 - 324 pages
...periods in western culture. Ruskin, as the most significant commentator writing in English, claimed that the 'greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something. ... To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion' (cited Hibbitts 1994: 257). Nature came to be... | |
 | Michael Wheeler - Literary Collections - 1999 - 330 pages
...eyesight to him is epitomized in that frequently quoted statement, taken from Modem Painters in (1856): 'Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think,...clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, - all in one' (5.333). Also familiar, however, is the anguished comment in a letter to Lady MountTemple, dated 1... | |
 | David Crouch - Business & Economics - 1999 - 316 pages
...spectacle. The nineteenth centurv was one of the most visual periods in Western culture; Ruskin claimed that the 'greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something ... To see clearlv is poetrv, prophecv, and religion' (quoted Hibbitts 1994: 257). Nature increasinglv... | |
 | Kate Flint - Art - 2000 - 450 pages
...for ever indescribable instrument'31 - and the importance of seeing. His well-known statement that 'the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this...to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way'32 calls attention to the integrity he believed must be invested in both observation and communication.... | |
 | Morton A. Meyers - Abdomen - 2000 - 820 pages
...life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. Ernest Hemingway Death in the Afternoon The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something. . . . To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, all in one. John Ruskin Modern Painters Preface... | |
 | Gregory Murphy - Drama - 2000 - 76 pages
...means whatsoever — the greatest number of the greatest ideas — and allows him to see. (Pause.) For the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see. Hundreds can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly... | |
 | Fergus Fleming - History - 2002 - 436 pages
...five-volume work whose publication was spread between 1843 and 1860. Its message was that of insight. 'The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this...clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion - all in one.'14 Ruskin reckoned that Turner had been a man with insight and his advocacy of the painter's vision... | |
 | Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, Neil Fraistat - Communication - 2002 - 278 pages
...simultaneous with, and enduring as long as the time of the text, actual and virtual. John Ruskin was a seer: "The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this...clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion — all in one."15 We are complex readers; we have not learned, most of us, to be complex viewers. We do not have... | |
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