Quotes of Walter Pater - somelinesforyou

“ What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. ”

- Walter Pater

“ What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. ”

- Walter Pater

“ To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ”

- Walter Pater

“ Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. "Philosophy is the microscope of thought." The theory or idea or system which requires of us the sacrifice of any part of this experience, in consideration of some interest into which we cannot enter, or some abstract theory we have not identified with ourselves, or what is only conventional, has no real claim upon us. ”

- Walter Pater

“ To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ”

- Walter Pater

“ To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ”

- Walter Pater

“ Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end. ”

- Walter Pater

“ All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. ”

- Walter Pater

“ What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. ”

- Walter Pater

“ That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. ”

- Walter Pater

“ What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. ”

- Walter Pater

“ What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. ”

- Walter Pater

“ In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. ”

- Walter Pater

“ That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. ”

- Walter Pater

“ Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. ”

- Walter Pater

“ Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end. ”

- Walter Pater

“ Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end. ”

- Walter Pater

“ And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object. ”

- Walter Pater

“ Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end. ”

- Walter Pater

“ What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. ”

- Walter Pater

“ To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ”

- Walter Pater

“ Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. ”

- Walter Pater

“ To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ”

- Walter Pater

“ For him, indeed, human life is, in the first instance, only an additional, and as it were incidental grace, upon this expressive landscape. ”

- Walter Pater

“ Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end. ”

- Walter Pater

“ To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ”

- Walter Pater

“ To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ”

- Walter Pater

“ Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us. "Philosophy is the microscope of thought." The theory or idea or system which requires of us the sacrifice of any part of this experience, in consideration of some interest into which we cannot enter, or some abstract theory we have not identified with ourselves, or what is only conventional, has no real claim upon us. ”

- Walter Pater

“ To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ”

- Walter Pater

“ To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ”

- Walter Pater
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