7 quotes
Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
The Renaissance (1873)
Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.
The Renaissance (1873)
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
The Renaissance (1873)
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
The Renaissance (1873)
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit is to rouse, to startle it into sharp and eager observation. … Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
The Renaissance (1873)
How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
The Renaissance (1873)
Rousseau … asked himself how he might make as much as possible of the interval that remained; and he was not biassed by anything in his previous life when he decided that it must be by intellectual excitement.
The Renaissance (1873)