The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Good poetry does undoubtedly tend to form the soul and character; it tends to beget a love of beauty and of truth… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.” — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
