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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
![Barzun's Quotes By Jacques Barzun: [T]hat is the triumph of history - truth](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/barzuns-quotes-by-jacques-barzun-239320.jpg "Barzun's Quotes By Jacques Barzun: [T]hat is the triumph of history - truth")
[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
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
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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
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[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
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
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
I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.
— 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
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
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
