Or if we begin with the inward world of thought and feeling, the whirlpool is still more rapid, the flame more eager and devouring.
Quote by Walter Pater about world, thinking
Quotes by Walter Pater, page 2
31 quotes by Walter Pater
Walter Pater - english critic
Life period: 1839 - 1894
Our education becomes complete in proportion as our susceptibility to these impressions increases in depth and variety.
Quote by Walter Pater about education
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
Quote by Walter Pater about idea, criticism, help
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.
Quote by Walter Pater about life, objects, poetry, common sense, sense
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
Quote by Walter Pater about philosophy, culture, human imperfections, spirit, life
The 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.
Quote by Walter Pater about activity, culture, age, olderness
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Quote by Walter Pater about life
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
Quote by Walter Pater about things, thinking
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
Quote by Walter Pater about objects, literary critic, beauty, power, being
With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
Quote by Walter Pater about experience, common sense, sense, things, time
