Matthew Arnold Quotes About Perfection

Quotes about: Perfection

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

  Matthew Arnold

  Swag, Perfection, Culture

• 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, 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

• 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)

• The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things" - as Swift most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."

  Matthew Arnold

  Book, Character, Light

  "Culture and Anarchy". Book by Matthew Arnold, 1869.

• 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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