quotes by Jacques Barzun

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

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

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

"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)

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