Walter Pater Quotes - Page 3

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• 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

  Moving, Intellectual, Age

  Walter Pater (1873). “Studies in the History of the Renaissance”, p.13

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• The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

  Walter Pater

  Renaissance, Century

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.

  Walter Pater

  Book, Fall, Independent

  Walter Pater (2011). “The Works of Walter Pater”, p.96, Cambridge University Press

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• At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

  Walter Pater

  Reality, Sight, Calling

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour, odour, texture... And if we continue to dwell in thought on this world... the whole scope of observation is dwarfed into the narrow chamber of the individual mind.

  Walter Pater

  Play, Mind, Magic

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