Author: Matthew Arnold

Quotes

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

- Matthew Arnold

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

- Matthew Arnold

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

- Matthew Arnold

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

Journalism is literature in a hurry.

- Matthew Arnold

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

- Matthew Arnold

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

- Matthew Arnold

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

- Matthew Arnold

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

- Matthew Arnold

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.

- Matthew Arnold

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