Author: Matthew Arnold

Quotes

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

- 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

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

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

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

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

- Matthew Arnold

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

- 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

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 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

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