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Matthew Arnold Quotes about Perfection

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Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Matthew Arnold
Character, Perfection, Personality
Culture and Anarchy ch. 1 (1869)

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.

Matthew Arnold
Perfection, Mind, Becoming

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Matthew Arnold
Light, Perfection, Pursuit
Culture and Anarchy ch. 1 (1869) See Swift 1

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

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.

Matthew Arnold
Light, Perfection, Reason
Culture and Anarchy ch. 1 (1869) See Swift 1

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