Quotes by Walter Pater about Life

8 quotes by Walter Pater about life

Walter Pater English critic

A 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.

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Art and poetry, philosophy and the religious life, and that other life of refined pleasure and action in the conspicuous places of the world, are each of them confined to its own circle of ideas, and those who prosecute either of them are...

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For him, indeed, human life is, in the first instance, ...

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

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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.

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How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in...

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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.

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The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, ...

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.

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To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to...

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

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