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John Ruskin1819–1900

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the “Pathetic Fallacy.”

John Ruskin on emotion

Modern Painters (1843-1860), Volume III, part IV, chapter XII (1856)

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