Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
MATTHEW ARNOLDPhilistinism! – We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
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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If an historian be an unbeliever in all heroism, if he be a man who brings every thing down to the level of a common mediocrity, depend upon it, the truth is not found in such a writer.
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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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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.
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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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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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I do not believe today everything I believed yesterday I wonder will I believe tomorrow everything I believe today.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
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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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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