Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
MATTHEW ARNOLDCulture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
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Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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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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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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Journalism is literature in a hurry.
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Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
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Force and right are the governors of this world; force till right is ready.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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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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On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.
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