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“Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.”
- Date
- 1873
Meaning of “Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself,…”
Pater shifts emphasis from a final product extracted from life toward the quality and intensity of lived experience itself, within his aesthetic philosophy of the Conclusion.
Where does it come from?
The Renaissance, Conclusion; Project Gutenberg #2398. This is an aesthetic-philosophical thesis, not a universal empirical rule for how everyone ought to live.
