John Ruskin

Nov 11, 2024 | fabula.org | John Ruskin

Préface de Pierre ThiessetTraduit de l’anglais par Pierre Thiesset et Quentin ThomassetLors de leur parution en 1860, ces essais ont scandalisé la bourgeoisie britannique. En plein culte du progrès industriel, John Ruskin, ce « Don Quichotte du XIXe siècle », s’attaque d’une plume acérée aux idéologues du capitalisme. Sa critique radicale de l’économie politique ébranle les fondements mêmes de cette pseudoscience, jusqu’à la définition de la richesse.

Jul 27, 2024 | fivebooks.com | George MacDonald |Lewis Carroll |John Ruskin |Quentin Blake

First, could you set the scene? What are the broad trends we see in Victorian fantasy? Sure! Fantasy doesn’t have a hard starting date – it’s something that grows. With some of the texts that I’ve chosen, some people would say: ‘is that fantasy, or is that fairytale?’ – and that is part of what fantasy is, that there are no hard boundaries. I mean, who likes a fantasy tale with hard boundaries?

May 20, 2024 | ourcivilisation.com | John Ruskin

DENMARK HILL, 1st July, 1871 MY FRIENDS, — It seldom chances, my work lying chiefly among stones, clouds, and flowers, that I am brought into any freedom of intercourse with my fellow-creatures; but since the fighting in Paris I have dined out several times, and spoken to the persons who sat next me, and to others when I went upstairs; and done the best I could to find out what people thought about the fighting, or thought they ought to think about it, or thought they ought to say.

Oct 15, 2023 | thechrysalisbrewproject.com | Ved Vyas |Leo Tolstoy |Friedrich Müller |John Ruskin

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”― Mahatma Gandhi The name Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is synonymous with ahimsa (non-violence). Born on October 2, 1869, Gandhi went on to lead India’s freedom struggle against British colonial rule. In an atmosphere fraught with violence and bloodshed, Gandhi strove to bring independence through peaceful methods. He set an example to the world by bringing about freedom from the colonial masters through a non-violent policy.