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.
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.
He knows, says Hebraism, his Biblewhenever we hear this said, we may, without any elaborate defense of culture, content ourselves with answering simply No man, who knows nothing else, knows even his Bible.
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
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.
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.
Culture is acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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.'
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