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Jacques Barzun

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
— Jacques Barzun hatred
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
— Jacques Barzun hope
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
— Jacques Barzun work
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
— Jacques Barzun education
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.
— Jacques Barzun life
I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
— Jacques Barzun history
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 knowledge
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
— Jacques Barzun civilization
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
— Jacques Barzun art
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
— Jacques Barzun feelings
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 art
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
— Jacques Barzun art
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
— Jacques Barzun art
Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.
— Jacques Barzun fashion
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.
— Jacques Barzun man
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 time
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
— Jacques Barzun change
I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.
— Jacques Barzun sleep
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 will
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
— Jacques Barzun time
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
— Jacques Barzun mind
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
— Jacques Barzun fiction
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
— Jacques Barzun art
Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house.
— Jacques Barzun man
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
— Jacques Barzun business

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