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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDThe eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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How many minds–almost all the great ones–were formed in secrecy and solitude!
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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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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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 long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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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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Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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It is – last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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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.
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France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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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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Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.
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