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Walter Pater quotes: Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.

Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.

Walter Pater quotes: What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.

Walter Pater quotes: For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.

Walter Pater quotes: To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Walter Pater quotes: All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.

All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage.

Walter Pater quotes: Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.

Walter Pater quotes: It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively.

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively.

Walter Pater quotes: To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.

To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.

Walter Pater quotes: Art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose

Art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose

Walter Pater quotes: Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

Walter Pater quotes: Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.

Walter Pater quotes: Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult.

Walter Pater quotes: The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

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

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

Walter Pater quotes: He ... preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined ...

He ... preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined ...

Walter Pater quotes: Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

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

Walter Pater quotes: To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

Walter Pater quotes: The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts

The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts