Matthew Arnold Quotes on Thinking
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How thick the bursts come crowding through the leaves! Again - thou hearest? Eternal passion! Eternal pain!
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The kings of modern thought are dumb.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Burke is so great because, almost alone in England, he brings thought to bear upon politics, he saturates politics with thought.
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The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties; 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; and through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly which makes up for the mischief of following them mechanically.