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 ARNOLDCulture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Life is the application of noble and profound ideas to life.
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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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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.
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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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Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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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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But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.
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Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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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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They… who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.
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Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
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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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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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