Matthew Arnold Quotes About Energy

Quotes about: Energy

• Genius is mainly an affair of energy.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Energy, Genius

  Matthew Arnold (1875). “Essays in Criticism”, p.58, London : [s.n.]

• Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.

  Matthew Arnold

  Energy, Genius, May

• The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore, a nation whose spirit is characterised by energy may well be eminent in science; and we have Newton. Shakspeare [sic] and Newton: in the intellectual sphere there can be no higher names. And what that energy, which is the life of genius, above everything demands and insists upon, is freedom; entire independence of all authority, prescription and routine, the fullest room to expand as it will.

  Matthew Arnold

  Science, Men, Names

• The love of science, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of science, in the best of the Aryan races do seem to correspond in a remarkable way to the love of conduct, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of conduct, in the best of the Semitic.

  Matthew Arnold

  Honesty, Science, Men

  Matthew Arnold, Thomas Burnett Smart (1903). “The Works of Matthew Arnold”

• For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust the energy of strongest souls And numb the elastic powers.

  Matthew Arnold

  Change, Men, Soul

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.240, Delphi Classics

• No, no! The energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife, From strength to strength advancing--only he His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.

  Matthew Arnold

  Energy Of Life, Soul, Battle

  Matthew Arnold (1869). “Poems”, p.129

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