 Its aim, indeed, was to be experience itself, and not the fruits of experience, sweet or bitter as they might be. Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing. But it was to teach man to...  Bulletin de la Société Néophilologique - Page 100edited by - 1912Full view - About this book
 | Hugh Black - Asceticism - 1901 - 362 pages
...What we have to do is to be ever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions. . . . The theory or idea or system which requires of us the sacrifice of this experience, in consideration of some interest into which we cannot enter, or some abstract theory... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1904 - 366 pages
...bitter as they might be. Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, 193 as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing. But it was...the moments of a life that is itself but a moment. There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1905 - 236 pages
...that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it is to know nothing. But it is to teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is itself but a moment. 104 Art never expresses anything but itself. It has an independent life, just as thought has, and develops... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1907 - 302 pages
...that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it is to know nothing. But it is to teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is in itself a moment. Society, civilised society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1909 - 284 pages
...or bitter as they might be. Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing. But it was...the moments of a life that is itself but a moment. There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dream157... | |
 | Philology, Modern - 1910 - 976 pages
...bitter äs they might be. Of tbe asceticism that deadens the senses, äs of the vulgär profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing. But it was...The Renaissance : — The theory or idea or System whicb requires of us the sacrifice of any part of this experience. . has no real claim upon us. (237—238).... | |
 | Walter Lippmann - Social problems - 1914 - 338 pages
...something more than a passive creature. Walter Pater might be quoted in his conclusion to the effect that "the theory or idea or system which requires of us the sacrifice of any part of experience, in consideration of some interest into which we cannot enter, or some abstract theory we... | |
 | Ernst August Lüdemann - 1913 - 310 pages
...that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy thiit dnlls them, it was to know nothing. Hut it was to teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is itsdf but a moment (The Picture of Dorian Gray, S. 205). Man erkennt, daß die Conclusion der Renaissance... | |
 | Ernst Paulus Bendz - Criticism - 1914 - 126 pages
...or bitter as they might be. Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing. But it was...the moments of a life that is itself but a moment, (p. 147). The words printed in italics (which are mine) will be found to be merely a paraphrase of... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - English Novel - 1915 - 1054 pages
...or bitter as they might be. Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing. But it was...the moments of a life that is itself but a moment. There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless... | |
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