"Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself,……" — Walter Pater
"Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end."
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Walter Pater
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45 Quotes by Walter Pater
Walter Pater has 45 quotes on this site.
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Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
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Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of…
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is…
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp…
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The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts
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Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,
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A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in…
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness…
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated…
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is…
— Hank Aaron
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately…
— J. J. Abrams
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
— Aristotle
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If journalists ask you again and again about the same bands, you'll end up saying you hate them just because…
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came…
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
— Neil Armstrong
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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I…
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
— Chinua Achebe
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