"Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself,……" — Walter Pater

"Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end."

— Walter Pater

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45 Quotes by Walter Pater

Walter Pater has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of…
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is…
At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp…
The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts
Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music,
A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in…
A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness…
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated…
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 end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came… — Dido Armstrong
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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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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