Jacques Barzun Quotes
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.
Jacques Barzun
American historian
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