129 ordspråk av Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold föddes den 24 desember 1822 och dog den 15 april 1888 - engelsk kritiker, essayist och skald.
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The eternal not ourselves that makes for righteousness.

Gray, a born poet, fell upon an age of reason.

The heart less bounding at emotion new, / The hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again.

Still nursing the unconquerable hope, / Still clutching the inviolable shade.

It always seems to me that the right sphere for Shelley's genius was the sphere of music, not of poetry.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. . . ./ He who works for sweetness and light united, works to make reason and the will of God prevail.

Culture is. . . properly described not as having its origin in curiosity, but as having its origin in the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

When we first saw the news of the bombing we didn't know he was out there [in Bali],

Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.

You will be out of the lives of free people everywhere. Your face will be off the coins and with that, your arrogant, undue influence. Everywhere. ... Everywhere. .. Every. ...

If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description of men in society to be able to say for itself what it wants, and not to have other classes, the so-called educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as its proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to provide for them. A class of men may often itself not either fully understand its wants, or adequately express them; but it has a nearer interest and a more sure diligence in the matter than any of its proctors, and therefore a better chance of success.

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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

Tired of knocking at Preferment's door.

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