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Jacques Barzun
Jacques Barzun
American Educator
Born: Nov 30, 1907
Died: Oct 25, 2012
Being Great Heart Man Mind Work
Related authors: Bill Nye Booker T. Washington Horace Mann John W. Gardner Michael Pollan Michael Porter Temple Grandin Timothy Leary
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. Jacques Barzun
Political Hatred Tolerance Correctness Only Does Political Correctness Legislate
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. Jacques Barzun
Work Knowledge Intelligence World Mind Wicked Society Addition Aims Impart Only Take Develop Share Perhaps Schooling Schools Hand Intended Improving Done After Lend Social Prepare Two
I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. Jacques Barzun
History Pessimist Think Student Almost Cheerful Always Inevitably Been Any
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. Jacques Barzun
Art Lost Tradition Lost Art Regard Teaching
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. Jacques Barzun
Work Day You Fruit See Remains Invisible Years Maybe Cannot Teaching Twenty
Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. Jacques Barzun
Feelings Nothing Idea Idealism Without Springs Them Deep Whole Keeps
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. Jacques Barzun
Great Changes Affectation Cultural End Begin Routine
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. Jacques Barzun
Music Emotions Hopes Purposes Intended Sentient Beings Designed
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun
Cause Anguish Another Intellectuals Chief Works
Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti. Jacques Barzun
Except Course Always Been Impractical Clothing Fashions
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. Jacques Barzun
Age Rise Risen Civilization Stone Stone Age Again
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers. Jacques Barzun
Crime Will Crime Fiction Danger Threaten More Writers Soon Readers Than May Fiction Really
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. Jacques Barzun
Duty Every Say He Exhibit His Artist May Productions Even Right
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
Man Conservative Mouth Liberal Air Both Firmly Feet Safely Opposed His Planted Who
Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house. Jacques Barzun
Me Sense Others Pound Names House Household Around Duchamp Were Familiar Literal Figures Many Marie
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. Jacques Barzun
Heart Better Mind Had Know Learn America Wants Whoever Baseball
I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it. Jacques Barzun
Fight Give Take Feel Read Naps Coming Then Sleep

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