Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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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 eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
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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, 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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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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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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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 the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.
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The brave, impetuous heart yields everywhere to the subtle, contriving head.
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