Author: Matthew Arnold

Quotes

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

- 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

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

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

- 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

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

- Matthew Arnold

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

- 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

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

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