Jacques Barzun Quotes

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

teaching

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. - Jacques Barzun quote.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
— Jacques Barzun God’s Country and Mine

America baseball

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. - Jacques Barzun quote.

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

environment

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

education

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form—or else it is not art. - Jacques Barzun quote.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form—or else it is not art.
— Jacques Barzun The House of Intellect

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You are working in clay, not marble, on paper, not eternal bronze; let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. - Jacques Barzun quote.

You are working in clay, not marble, on paper, not eternal bronze; let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.
— Jacques Barzun On Writing, Editing, and Publishing

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