Author: Jacques Barzun

Quotes

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

- Jacques Barzun

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

- Jacques Barzun

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

- Jacques Barzun

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.

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

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

- Jacques Barzun

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

- Jacques Barzun

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

- Jacques Barzun

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

- Jacques Barzun

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

- Jacques Barzun

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