“Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.”
― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
“We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.”
― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
“Journalism is literature in a hurry.”
― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
“The free thinking of one age is the common sense of the next.”
― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
“And we forget because we must and not because we will.”
― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
“If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.”
― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
“Culture is the endeavour to know the best and to make this knowledge prevail for the good of all humankind.”
― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
“To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.”
― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
“And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flights,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.”
― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
“Society may be imagined so uniform that one education shall be suitable for all its members; we have not a society of that kind, nor has any European country.”
― Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)