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Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.
Culture and Anarchy (1869)
Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.
Culture and Anarchy (1869)
The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.
Culture and Anarchy (1869)
Culture is then 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.
Culture and Anarchy (1869)
Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration.
Culture and Anarchy (1869)
The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.
Culture and Anarchy (1869)
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 and Anarchy (1869)
Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace; and America is just ourselves, with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.
Culture and Anarchy (1869)
[W]ithout order there can be no society, and without society there can be no human perfection.
Culture and Anarchy (1869)
One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.
Culture and Anarchy (1869)