"Music is intended and designed for sentient beings……" — Jacques Barzun
"Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions."
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84 Quotes by Jacques Barzun
Jacques Barzun has 84 quotes on this site.
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Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be…
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In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty…
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Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the…
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as…
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It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
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The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He…
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Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the…
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Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active,…
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Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is…
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
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It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us',…
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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the…
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,…
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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the…
— James A. Baldwin
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
— Honore de Balzac
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable…
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