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Jacques Barzun was an American historian, born on November 30, 1907, and passed away on October 25, 2012. He was renowned for his profound insights into Western culture, literature, and history, and is considered one of the most important cultural critics of the 20th century.

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“Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.”

Age Profession Old Age

Author:Jacques Barzun

“The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.”

Men Way Stills Age Found Pleasure Rooms Education Silence Activity Silent Passionate Educated Covert Educated Man

Author:Jacques Barzun

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

Source: The House of Intellect

“The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.”

Men Philosophy Problem Age Individual Given One Thing Solve Dominant

Book:Classic, Romantic, and Modern

Source: Classic, Romantic, and Modern

“Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where human judgment abdicates. The smoothest machine-made product of the age is the organization man, for even the best organizing principle tends to corrupt, and the mechanical principle corrupts absolutely.”

Men Giving Humans Made Age Enemy Principles Products Judgment Machines Organization Relief Users Consent Admirable Drudgery

Author:Jacques Barzun

“We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.”

Firsts Art Age Appreciate Experience

Book:Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980

Source: Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980

About the Author

Born: November 30, 1907
Died: October 25, 2012
Known for: Historian
Quotes: 123

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