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.
MATTHEW ARNOLDOne thing only has been lent to youth and age in common–discontent.
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
-
-
Genius is mainly an affair of energy.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
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.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Not deep the poet sees, but wide.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
A wanderer is man from his birth. He was born in a ship On the breast of the river of Time.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Men of culture are the true apostles of equality
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
Journalism is literature in a hurry.
MATTHEW ARNOLD -
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.
MATTHEW ARNOLD