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Walter Pater Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world Picture Quote #1

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action Picture Quote #1

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us Picture Quote #1

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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have Picture Quote #1

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought Picture Quote #1

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions Picture Quote #1

To know when one’s self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world (Walter Pater Quotes) At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action (Walter Pater Quotes) Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us (Walter Pater Quotes) 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 Quotes) Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us (Walter Pater Quotes) Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have (Walter Pater Quotes) To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought (Walter Pater Quotes) What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions (Walter Pater Quotes) To know when one’s self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people (Walter Pater Quotes)

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