Matthew Arnold Quotes About Culture

• Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dance, History, Art And Culture

  'Literature and Dogma' (1873) preface

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

  Matthew Arnold

  Culture, World, Said

  Attributed to Matthew Arnold's "Literature and Dogma". "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 216-218, 1922.

• Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.

  Matthew Arnold

  Mean, Perfection, Culture

  Culture and Anarchy preface (1869)

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

  Matthew Arnold

  Swag, Perfection, Culture

• La cultura, pues, es un estudio de la perfección, y la perfección que insiste en llegar a ser algo más que en tener algo, en una condición interior de la mente y el espíritu, no en un conjunto exterior de circunstancias.

  Matthew Arnold

  Perfection, Mind, Becoming

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

  Matthew Arnold

  Character, Perfection, Personality

  Culture and Anarchy ch. 1 (1869)

• Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

  Matthew Arnold

  Intellectual, Culture, Moral

• Men of culture are the true apostles of equality

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Culture, Apostles

  'Culture and Anarchy' (1869) ch. 1

• There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."

  Matthew Arnold

  Bishops, Culture, Reason

  Matthew Arnold (2016). “Culture and Anarchy”, p.8, BookRix

• Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

  Matthew Arnold

  Clase, Justicia, Diversidad

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.814, Delphi Classics

• Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

  Matthew Arnold

  Passion, Light, Culture

  1873 Literature and Dogma, preface.

• Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hate, Passion, Light

  "Culture and Anarchy" by Matthew Arnold, (Ch. I), 1869.

• La palabra griega euphuia, una naturaleza finamente templada, da exactamente la noción de perfección tal como la cultura nos lleva a percibirla; una perfección armoniosa, una perfección en la que los caracteres de la belleza y la inteligencia están ambos presentes, que une "las dos cosas más nobles" -como Swift las llama muy felizmente en su Batalla de los Libros, "las dos cosas más nobles, la dulzura y la luz".

  Matthew Arnold

  Book, Character, Light

  "Culture and Anarchy". Book by Matthew Arnold, 1869.

• I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.

  Matthew Arnold

  Culture, Believer

  Culture and Anarchy introduction (1869)

• La cultura mira más allá de la maquinaria, la cultura odia el odio; la cultura tiene una gran pasión: la pasión por la dulzura y la luz. Tiene una aún mayor, la pasión por hacer que todas prevalezcan. No está satisfecha hasta que todos lleguemos a un hombre perfecto; sabe que la dulzura y la luz de unos pocos deben ser imperfectas hasta que las masas crudas y poco amables de la humanidad sean tocadas con dulzura y luz.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hate, Passion, Men

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

• It does not try to reach down to the level of inferior classes; it does not try to win them for this or that sect of its own, with ready-made judgments and watchwords of its own. It seeks to away with classes, to make the best that has been taught and known in the world current everywhere, to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light, where they may use ideas, as it uses them itself, freely--nourished, and not bound by them.

  Matthew Arnold

  Winning, Men, Light

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