Walter Pater's Profile
Brief about Walter Pater: By info that we know Walter Pater was born at 1970-01-01. And also Walter Pater is English Critic.
Some Walter Pater's quotes. Goto "Walter Pater's quotation" section for more.To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Tags: Hard, Life, SuccessIn 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.
Tags: After, Failure, SaidA counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?
Tags: Life, May, SeenThe various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
Tags: Age, Culture, TogetherPhilosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
Tags: Criticism, Help, MayExperience, 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.
Tags: Experience, Group, RealArt comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
Tags: Art, Give, QualityFor art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
Tags: Art, Give, QualityNot the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
Tags: End, Experience, FruitThe Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
Tags: Century, Great, RatherThe service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
Tags: Human, Life, PhilosophyTo regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
Tags: Become, Modern, ThoughtA 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.
Tags: Less, Poetry, SenseAnd 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.
Tags: Age, Art, SeriousAt 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.
Tags: Action, Experience, RealityGreat 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.
Tags: Great, Life, LoveMany attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
Tags: Art, Beauty, PoetryRelated topics
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