“Therefore, when we speak of ourselves as divided into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace, we must be understood always to imply that within each of these classes there are a certain number of aliens, if we may so call them,−−persons who are mainly led, not by their class spirit, but by a general humane spirit, by the love of human perfection” PerfectionIndependenceBarbariansPopulismPhilistines Book:Culture and Anarchy Source: Culture and Anarchy
“Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.” MindSpiritCultureStudyConditionsBecomingCircumstancesPerfectionInwardBecoming Something Author:Matthew Arnold
“Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.” CharacterCultureGrowingPersonalityBecomingPerfection Author:Matthew Arnold
“The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.” LightPerfectionPursuitSweetnessPerfectionismPerfectionistPursuit Of PerfectionPerfection And ImperfectionPursuit Of Excellence Author:Matthew Arnold
“Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.” CultureStudyPerfectionSwaggerSwag Author:Matthew Arnold
“The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things" - as Swift most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."” GivingTwoBookCharacterLightCultureBattlePerfectionNotionPerceiveGreekSweetnessHarmonious Author:Matthew Arnold
“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.” ReasonLightUnitedPerfectionPursuitGods WillSweetnessPursuit Of Perfection Author:Matthew Arnold
“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.” KnowsWorldMeanHas BeensSaidMatterCultureConcernPerfectionPursuit Author:Matthew Arnold
