Author: Jacques Barzun

Quotes

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

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

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

- Jacques Barzun

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

- 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

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 remote circle, and no hills intervene.

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 remote circle, and no hills intervene.

- 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

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

- Jacques Barzun

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

- Jacques Barzun

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