Jacques Martin Barzun Quotes

• Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

  Jacques Martin Barzun

• Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

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• Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

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

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

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• 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.

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• Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

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• Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

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• 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.

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

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• An artist has every right – one may even say a duty – to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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Jacques Martin Barzun (35)

Birth:	30th November, 1907
Death:	25th October, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Historian, Professor, Writer

About

Jacques Martin Barzun was born in Créteil, France. He was a French-born American historian. Focusing on ideas and culture, he wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball, mystery novels, and classical music. He was also known as a philosopher of education. He published more than forty books. He earned a BA degree from Columbia University in 1927. He received his PhD in Cultural History from Columbia University in 1932. He served as a professor of History at Columbia University in 1937-1975. He wrote several books include: Race, Romanticism and the Modern Ego, The Teacher in America, The House of Intellect, The American University, Pleasures of Music, The Use and Abuse of Art, Simple and Direct, The Culture We Deserve, and From Dawn to Decadence. He was awarded the American Presidential Medal of Freedom. He was dubbed a knight of the French Legion of Honor.

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