Walter Pater Quotes

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.
Walter Pater

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

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

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.
Walter Pater

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.
Walter Pater

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Walter Pater Quotes

Type: Critic Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes Date of Birth: August 4, 1839 Date of Death: July 30, 1894 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Walter Pater Related Authors: Aleister Crowley William Hazlitt John Churton Collins Charles Lamb Lytton Strachey Clive Bell Kenneth Tynan F. L. Lucas	1 - 2 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. Walter Pater To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Walter Pater To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought. Walter Pater 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. Walter Pater 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. Walter Pater 1 - 2