Absurd Quote by Jacques Barzun Download Open image “When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.” — Jacques Barzun ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurd Accepting Culture Futility Normal People
Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Cultural habits are by and large irrational, emerge irrationally, and are practiced irrationally. They are independent of the intellect, and trying to fit them… — G. Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
“What they produce is not culture but a population allergic to logic, addicted to drama, and proud of their own mental stagnation. In the… — E. Ravago Copy Share Image
The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence. — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too. — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent,… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It seem absurd to me that they don't know, haven't felt any change or tremor, even as my life has been completely turned upside… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
