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Walter Pater quotes

English Critic August 4, 1839 – July 30, 1894

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Walter Pater quote: "Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the..."
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. 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
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. Walter Pater
Walter Pater quote: "The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things,..."
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved. Walter Pater
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry. Walter Pater
Walter Pater quote: "Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the..."
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. Walter Pater
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
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
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
Walter Pater quote: "Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end."
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. Walter Pater
Walter Pater quote: "He...preferred always the more to the less remote, what,..."
He...preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined... Walter Pater
Walter Pater quote: "It is always hazardous to express what one has to say..."
It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively. Walter Pater
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece. Walter Pater

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