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" Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. 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 "
Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing - Page 55
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The Renaissance

Walter Pater - 1873 - 252 pages
...is passion — that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of_guch wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For~art comes to you proposing frankly f5~pve nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they...
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The Virginia Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1927 - 782 pages
...multiplied consciousness." Well, the answer was quick on the tongue. "Of such wisdom," he finally decides, "the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love...proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest qualities to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." There is much in that...
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Moral Philosophy: The Critical View of Life

Warner Fite - 1925 - 344 pages
...(or Cyrenaicism) of Pater's "Conclusion" to the volume on "The Renaissance". To think only of giving "the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake"; "to burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy" of the concentrated moment;...
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An Adventure in Moral Philosophy

Warner Fite - 1926 - 296 pages
...(or Cyrenaicism) of Pater's "Conclusion" to the volume on "The Renaissance". To think only of giving "the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake" ; "to burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy" of the concentrated moment...
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A Naturalist of Souls: Studies in Psychography

Gamaliel Bradford - 1926 - 390 pages
...it is passion, that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake has most; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality...
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Franske matematikere under revolutionen

Niels Nielsen - 1927 - 610 pages
...sure it is passion, that it does yield you this f mit of a quickened, multiplied conscious« ness. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty,...art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you propos* ing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply...
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Toward Standards: A Study of the Present Critical Movement in American Letters

Norman Foerster - 1966 - 244 pages
...above all else; our highest wisdom is "the love of art for its own sake." "For art," Pater concludes, "comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but...as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake." This indeed is an impressionistic theory of life and art, and something very different from the romantic...
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Psyche, Volume 8

Charles Kay Ogden - 1928 - 468 pages
...which, in its vivid clearness, is like sensation ". The basic mood of the ethic is in the resolve " to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments, as they pass, and simply for the moment's sake ". Of the intent of such a moment Amiel has written, " Each bud flowers but once...
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Foundations of English Style

Paul Milton Fulcher - 1927 - 336 pages
...is passion — that it does yield you this fruit of a quickened, multiplied consciousness. Of this wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake, has most; for art comes to you professing frankly to give nothing but *he highest quality...
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With Eyes of the Past, Volume 4

Henry Ladd - 1928 - 112 pages
...of Pater's appreciation is still active and distinguishes certain critics who hold that of a "pagan wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for art's sake has most." Others of near kin are characterized by the fire of Rousseau to revolt against...
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