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Jacques Barzun
American
Educator
About the author
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.
Jacques Barzun,
American
Educator
#Business
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
Jacques Barzun,
American
Educator
#Heart
#Baseball
#First
#School
#Mind
#America
#Rules
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Jacques Barzun,
American
Educator
#Man
#Education
#Mind
#Exercise
#Pleasure
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
Jacques Barzun,
American
Educator
#Cause
#Intellectuals
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
Jacques Barzun,
American
Educator
#Will
#May
#Writers
#Danger
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques Barzun,
American
Educator
#Art
#Teaching
#Tradition
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.
Jacques Barzun,
American
Educator
#Being
#Intellect
#Opinion
#Privilege
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
Jacques Barzun,
American
Educator
#Hatred
#Tolerance
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
Jacques Barzun,
American
Educator
#Tragedy
#Mind
Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.
Jacques Barzun,
American
Educator
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Jacques Barzun,
American
Educator
#Emotions
#Music
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Jacques Barzun,
American
Educator
#Work
#Teaching
#Years
#Day
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,
American
Educator
#Talk
#Life
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,
American
Educator
#Style
#Past
#Education
#Injustice
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Jacques Barzun,
American
Educator
#Civilization
#Age
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
Jacques Barzun,
American
Educator
#Nothing
#Idea
#Deep
#Feelings
#Idealism
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
Jacques Barzun,
American
Educator
#End
#Routine
#Affectation
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.
Jacques Barzun,
American
Educator
#Man
#Conservative
#Feet
#Liberal
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
Jacques Barzun,
American
Educator
#Right
#May
#Duty
#Artist
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
Jacques Barzun,
American
Educator
#Art
#Meaning
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
Jacques Barzun,
American
Educator
#Time
#Mail