Quote #286,769
“Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, ma…” — Walter Pater
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
check_circle
Copied to clipboard!
More from Walter Pater
View AllWith myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.— Walter Pater
With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.— Walter Pater