3 Matthew Arnold Quotes on Reason

Matthew Arnold quotes on reason

30. With women the heart argues, not the mind.

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111. The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. He who works for sweetness and light, works to make reason and the will of God prevail. He who works for machinery, he who works for hatred, works only for confusion. Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.

122. 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.'