Best Jacques Barzun Sayings
- The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so. Born
- History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles… Dead
- [T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist. Absolute
- The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Anguish
- The philosophical implication of race-thinking is that by offering us the mystery of heredity as an explanation, it diverts our attention from the social and… Attention
- We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did… Ability
- Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings. Advice
- The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals. Amateurs
- Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention. Convention
- We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts. Acquiring
- It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism. Alternative
- Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice. Ability
- Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it. Adult
- 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… Boxed
- 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. Artist
- I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. Almost Inevitably
- I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it. Coming
- 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… Break
- The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in… Amateur
- Regarding the idea of race, .. no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as… Agreement
- Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. Affectation
- In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can… Able
- The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form. Bicycle
- You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same. Inspirational
- Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or… All
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