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"No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece."

Walter Pater on Religion

More quotes about Religion

  • "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."

    Dalai Lama on Religion

  • "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Religion

  • "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

    C. S. Lewis on Religion

  • "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

    C. S. Lewis on Religion

  • "I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."

    Albert Camus on Religion

More quotes by Walter Pater

  • "All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music."

  • "Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening."

  • "Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it."

  • "Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have."

  • "What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects."

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