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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

Matthew Arnold
Culture, World, Said
Attributed to Matthew Arnold's "Literature and Dogma". "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 216-218, 1922.

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.

Matthew Arnold
Mean, Perfection, Culture
Culture and Anarchy preface (1869)

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Matthew Arnold
Swag, Perfection, Culture

Men of culture are the true apostles of equality

Matthew Arnold
Men, Culture, Apostles
'Culture and Anarchy' (1869) ch. 1

Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

Matthew Arnold
Intellectual, Culture, Moral

There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."

Matthew Arnold
Bishops, Culture, Reason
Matthew Arnold (2016). “Culture and Anarchy”, p.8, BookRix

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

Matthew Arnold
Passion, Light, Culture
1873 Literature and Dogma, preface.

I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.

Matthew Arnold
Culture, Believer
Culture and Anarchy introduction (1869)

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