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Famous Jacques Barzun Quotes
“It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.”
“You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.”
“no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.”
“Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.”
“The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.”
“If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.”
“Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.”
“Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.”
“The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.”
“The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.”
“Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.”
“When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.”