Quotes by Walter Pater about Things

4 quotes by Walter Pater about things

Walter Pater English critic

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.

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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.

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To regard all things and principles of things as...

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

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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.

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