Matthew Arnold Culture Quotations

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

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.

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

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.

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."

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

Men of culture are the true apostles of equality

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

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

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.