Political correctness does not legislate tolerance it only organizes hatred. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form -- or else it is not art. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
In any assembly the simplest way to stop the transacting of business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The piano is the social instrument par excellence. . . . drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Regarding the idea of race, ... no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race How can it be recognized Who constitute the several races - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning. - Jacques Barzun Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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