quotes by Jacques Barzun

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

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

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

"Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race."
— 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

"“no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.”"
— Jacques Barzun

"The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form."
— Jacques Barzun (From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present)

"Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published."
— Jacques Barzun (From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present)

"Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice."
— Jacques Barzun (From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present)

"“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams”"
— Jacques Barzun