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Jacques Barzun Quotes

American - Educator | November 30, 1907 - October 25, 2012

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

Political Tolerance Hatred Only Does

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

Art Meaning Memorable Form Sensation

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.

Work Knowledge Intelligence Mind

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

Communication Morning Time Long Mail

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

Man Space Horizon Circle Europe

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Art Tradition Lost Teaching Regard

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

Creative Wave Shadows Will Fresh

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.

Me House Others Names Sense Literal

I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

Sleep Fight Feel Coming Take Give

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.

Education Style Past Injustice Moral

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

Work Day Fruit You Invisible See

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.

Heart School Baseball Mind Game

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