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 ARNOLDTo have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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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And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, She needs not June for beauty’s heightening.
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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.
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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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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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I knew the mass of men conceal’d Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal’d They would by other men be met With blank indifference.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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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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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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Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
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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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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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