Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLDAll knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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All the live murmur of a summer’s day.
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Time, so complain’d of, Who to no one man Shows partiality, Brings round to all men Some undimm’d hours.
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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
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It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?
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Whoever sets himself to see things as they are will find himself one of a very small circle but it is only by this small circle resolutely doing its own work that adequate ideas will ever get current at all.
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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
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