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Like the elements of which we are composed, the action of these forces extends beyond us: it rusts iron and ripens corn.

Quote by Walter Pater about opinion, force, action

Many 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.

Quote by Walter Pater about writers, poetry, beauty, art, magic

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.

Quote by Walter Pater about christianity, old, religion

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

Quote by Walter Pater about experience, end

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

Quote by Walter Pater about gifts, attitude, sleep, sun, moment, day

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has...

Quote by Walter Pater about beauty, literary critic, common sense, sense, wisdom, art, magic, love

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

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 success, 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

What we have to do is to be for ever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions, never acquiescing in a facile orthodoxy, of Comte, or of Hegel, or of our own.

Quote by Walter Pater about wish

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

Julie Walters asked me at the premiere whether I liked the film and I said she was more like me in Educating Rita naive, you know.

Quote by Cynthia Payne about film, contentment

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Quote by Richard Burton about teaching, man

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

Quote by Richard Burton about man, wealth