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Objects Quotes by Walter Pater
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour,…
More Objects Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything.… — Paul Auster
- If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop… — Martha Beck
- It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when you need… — Kelly Lin
- in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your two courses… — Thomas Jefferson
- The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem,… — William James
- What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects? — Ian Mcewan