Quote by Matthew Arnold
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been kno

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. – Matthew Arnold

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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

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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. – Matthew Arnold

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What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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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

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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. – Rita Mae Brown

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Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver. – Hermann Goering

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