I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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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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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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Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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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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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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