To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Walter Pater
Tag: Quote of the Day
25APR2025 – Quote of the Day
For art comes to you, proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for these moments sake.
Walter Pater
24APR2025 – Quote of the Day
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music
Walter Pater
23APR2025 – Quote of the Day
We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.
Walter Pater
22APR2025 – Quote of the Day
To know when one’s self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.
Walter Pater
21APR2025 – Quote of the Day
Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.
Walter Pater
20APR2025 – Quote of the Day
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
Walter Pater
19APR2025 – Quote of the Day
I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
Blaise Pascal
18APR2025 – Quote of the Day
No one is ignorant that there are two avenues by which opinions are received into the soul, which are its two principal powers: the understanding and the will.
Blaise Pascal
17APR2025 – Quote of the Day
If we look at our work immediately after completing it, we are still too involved; if too long afterwards, we cannot pick up the thread again.
Blaise Pascal