“Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made.”
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Famous Jacques Barzun Quotes
“The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.”
Source: Teacher in America
“The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.”
Source: The House of Intellect
“Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings.”
Source: Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980
“Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.”
Source: The House of Intellect
Source: Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980
Source: Teacher in America
Source: Teacher in America
“Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.”
Source: The House of Intellect
“I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.”
“I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.”