A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens — Walter Horatio Pater
A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. — Walter Horatio Pater
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one — Walter Horatio Pater
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon — Walter Horatio Pater
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass. — Walter Horatio Pater
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of — Walter Horatio Pater
Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract — Walter Horatio Pater
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is — Walter Horatio Pater
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love — Walter Horatio Pater
For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your — Walter Horatio Pater
One of the most beautiful passages of rousseau is that in the sixth book of confessions — Walter Horatio Pater
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry — Walter Horatio Pater
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help — Walter Horatio Pater
No account of the renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt — Walter Horatio Pater
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition — Walter Horatio Pater
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more — Walter Horatio Pater
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. — Walter Horatio Pater
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age — Walter Horatio Pater
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse — Walter Horatio Pater
The renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what — Walter Horatio Pater
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice — Walter Horatio Pater
With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all — Walter Horatio Pater
