Matthew Arnold Quotes

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion... view

By: Matthew Arnold

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done... view

By: Matthew Arnold

Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall... view

By: Matthew Arnold

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged.. view

By: Matthew Arnold

Truth sits upon the lips of dying men... view

By: Matthew Arnold

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

By: Matthew Arnold

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

By: Matthew Arnold

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light... view

By: Matthew Arnold

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence... view

By: Matthew Arnold

And we forget because we must and not because we will... view

By: Matthew Arnold

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

By: Matthew Arnold

Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair... view

By: Matthew Arnold

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

By: Matthew Arnold

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection.. view

By: Matthew Arnold

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

By: 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... view

By: Matthew Arnold

France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme... view

By: Matthew Arnold

Greatness is a spiritual condition... view

By: Matthew Arnold

Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away... view

By: Matthew Arnold

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

By: Matthew Arnold

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

By: Matthew Arnold

Journalism is literature in a hurry... view

By: Matthew Arnold

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it... view

By: Matthew Arnold

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace.. view

By: Matthew Arnold

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things... view

By: Matthew Arnold

Poetry.. view

By: Matthew Arnold

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery... view

By: Matthew Arnold

Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair... view

By: Matthew Arnold

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show... view

By: Matthew Arnold

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore... view

By: Matthew Arnold