“Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.”
WP
“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.”
Walter Pater
“To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
Walter Pater
“It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis leaves off—that continual vanishing away, that strange, perpetual weaving and unweaving of ...”
Walter Pater
“The presence that thus rose so strangely beside the waters, is expressive of what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire. Hers is the head upon which all "the ends of the world are com...”
Walter Pater
“Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them ...”
Walter Pater