The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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Philistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Tis not to see the world As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes, And heart profoundly stirred; And weep, and feel the fullness of the past, The years that are not more.
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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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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
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And see all sights from pole to pole, And glance, and nod, and hustle by; And never once possess our soul Before we die.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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