Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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However, if I shall live to be eighty I shall probably be the only person left in England who reads anything but newspapers and scientific publications.
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Nature’s great law, and the law of all men’s minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
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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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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Weep bitterly over the dead, for he is worthy, and then comfort thyself; drive heaviness away: thou shall not do him good, but hurt thyself.
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Greatness is a spiritual condition.
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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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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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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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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