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From Quotes by Jacques Barzun
- Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
- If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
- Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.
- Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from…
- To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.
- Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where…
- 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…
- 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…
- Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice.
- Of true knowledge at any time, a good part is merely convenient, necessary indeed to the worker, but not to an understanding of his subject:…
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