Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high, white star of Truth,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward… — 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
Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The sea of faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there… — 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
