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Jacques Barzun Quotes

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

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

Deep Feelings Nothing Without Whole

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

Great End Routine Changes Begin

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Education Man Mind Exercise Test He

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

Music Emotions Hopes Intended Beings

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

Great Mind Tragedy Only Yields

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

Business Stop Way Split Principle

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

Chief Cause Anguish Works Another

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

Always Clothing Been Course Except

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

Age Stone Rise Civilization Again

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.

Crime Will More Fiction Danger May

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

Artist Say Duty Right May Even

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.

Life Alive Possible Talk Never Real

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