Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
About Jacques Barzun
Jacques Martin Barzunwas a French-born American historian known for his studies of the history of ideas and cultural history. He wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, mystery novels, and classical music, and was also known as a philosopher of education.
More quotes from 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.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
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.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
The test and the use of man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
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.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
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.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
The intellectuals’ chief cause of anguish are one another’s works.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
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.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
An artist has every right – one may even say a duty – to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form – or else it is not art.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
French-born American historian (1907-2012)