5 Quotes by Matthew Arnold about ideas

  • Author Matthew Arnold
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    For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.

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  • Author Matthew Arnold
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    The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience .

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  • Author Matthew Arnold
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    Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

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