Metiu Arnold quotes Born: 00/00/1822 Died: 04/15/1888 Country: united_kingdom

• And we forget because we must and not because we will. (Metiu Arnold)
• Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. (Metiu Arnold)
• Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair. (Metiu Arnold)
• Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. (Metiu Arnold)
• Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection. (Metiu Arnold)
• Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world. (Metiu 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. (Metiu Arnold)
• France, famed in all great arts, in none supreme. (Metiu Arnold)
• Greatness is a spiritual condition. (Metiu Arnold)
• Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! (Metiu 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. (Metiu 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. (Metiu Arnold)
• Journalism is literature in a hurry. (Metiu Arnold)
• Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away. (Metiu Arnold)
• Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it. (Metiu Arnold)
• Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. (Metiu Arnold)
• Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. (Metiu Arnold)
• Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. (Metiu Arnold)
• Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. (Metiu Arnold)
• Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair. (Metiu 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. (Metiu Arnold)
• Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. (Metiu Arnold)
• The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. (Metiu Arnold)
• 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. (Metiu Arnold)
• The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. (Metiu Arnold)
• The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. (Metiu Arnold)
• The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. (Metiu Arnold)
• To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive. (Metiu Arnold)
• Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. (Metiu Arnold)
• Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge (Metiu Arnold)
• Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall (Metiu Arnold)

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