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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
Knowledge, Spirit, Modern
Walter Pater (2011). “The Works of Walter Pater”, p.66, Cambridge University Press

Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists.

Walter Pater
Law, Mind, Association
Walter Pater (2011). “The Works of Walter Pater”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

Walter Pater
Religious, Art, Age
Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.24, Courier Corporation

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

Walter Pater
Wall, Real, Voice
Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.153, Courier Corporation

Has nature connected itself together by no bond, allowed itself to be thus crippled, and split into the divine and human elements? Well! there are certain divine powers of a middle nature, through whom our aspirations are conveyed to the gods, and theirs to us. A celestial ladder, a ladder from heaven to earth.

Walter Pater
Heaven, Together, Elements
Walter Pater (2006). “Marius the Epicurean: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.81, ReadHowYouWant.com

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