Quotes from Matthew Arnold — Lionel Trilling
1905–1975 United States
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After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
Matthew Arnold (1939)
The factory was not made for man but man for the factory.
Matthew Arnold (1939)
It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God," and quite another to say, "Whatever is contained in the Bible is religion, and was revealed by God." If the latter be accepted, metaphor and allegory become literal statements and the errors and absurdities of bibliolatry follow.
Matthew Arnold (1939)
The doctrines of Calvinism involved a reversal of values with which Arnold became increasingly concerned. Work had always been a curse and a means, but it had now turned into a blessing and an end. The production of goods had become an end in itself and the consumption of goods only the means to further production. The factory was not made for man but man for the factory.
Matthew Arnold (1939)