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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDLife is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Now the great winds shoreward blow Now the salt tides seaward flow Now the wild white horses play Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
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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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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!
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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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Time may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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To thee only God granted A heart ever new: To all always open; To all always true.
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Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think we feel, there flows With noiseless current, strong, obscure and deep, The central stream of what we feel indeed.
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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