Quotes by Jacques Barzun

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.

Hands

History

Triumph

A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others,thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.

Lines

May

Three

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

Air

Feet

Men

A person is not a democrat thanks to his ignorance of literature and the arts, nor an elitist because he or she has cultivated them. The possession of knowledge makes for unjust power over others only if used for that very purpose: a physician or lawyer or clergyman can exploit or humiliate others, or he can be a humanitarian and a benefactor. In any case, it is absurd to conjure up behind anybody who exploits his educated status the existence of an “elite” scheming to oppress the rest of us.

Art

Ignorance

Physicians

A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty; and must not be burdened with my work as if he followed no other and had contracted no obligation under heaven but that of satisfying my requirements.

Care

Heaven

Requirements

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

Advice

Ideas

Trying

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

Prejudice

Substance

Weapons

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

Europe

Men

Space

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

Adults

Loving You

Self

Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word “race” has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No one today would deny that it is one of the great catchwords about which ink and blood are spilled in reckless quantities. Yet no agreement seems to exist about what race means.

Mean

Men

Race

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Quotes by Jacques Barzun

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.

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty; and must not be burdened with my work as if he followed no other and had contracted no obligation under heaven but that of satisfying my requirements.

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

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

After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

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

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