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The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity. — Jacques Barzun

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. — Jacques Barzun

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist. — Jacques Barzun

Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done. — Jacques Barzun

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

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West. — Jacques Barzun

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. — Jacques Barzun

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism. — Jacques Barzun

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots. — Jacques Barzun

When all around take fundamental ideas for granted, these must be the truth. For most minds there is no comfort like it. — Jacques Barzun

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation. — Jacques Barzun

First Principle: Have a point and make it by means of the best word. — Jacques Barzun

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence. — Jacques Barzun

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces. — Jacques Barzun

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn. — Jacques Barzun

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same. — Jacques Barzun

Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention. — Jacques Barzun

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. — Jacques Barzun

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one's scapegoats. — Jacques Barzun

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings. — Jacques Barzun

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world. — Jacques Barzun

Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it. — Jacques Barzun

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

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation. — Jacques Barzun

The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression. — Jacques Barzun

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts. — Jacques Barzun

[ ... ] the state is not immoral but amoral; half of it exists outside morality — Jacques Barzun

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

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

[The prince] dare not let ethics keep him from doing whatever evil must be done to preserve himself and the state. — Jacques Barzun

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form. — Jacques Barzun

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

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. — Jacques Barzun

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so. — Jacques Barzun

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. — Jacques Barzun

Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing. — Jacques Barzun

No one has ever used historical examples, near or remote, with the detail, precision, and directness to be found in every page of Shaw. — Jacques Barzun

No subject of study is more important than reading ... all other intellectual powers depend on it. — Jacques Barzun

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. — Jacques Barzun

I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it. — Jacques Barzun

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

Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made. — Jacques Barzun

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way — Jacques Barzun

When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent. — Jacques Barzun

I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. — Jacques Barzun

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

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries. — Jacques Barzun

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice. — Jacques Barzun

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. — Jacques Barzun

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it. — Jacques Barzun

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

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals. — Jacques Barzun

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

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

Life is given us as a passion. — Jacques Barzun

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

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. — Jacques Barzun

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published. — Jacques Barzun

Simple English is no one's mother tongue. It has to be worked for. — Jacques Barzun

Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight. — Jacques Barzun