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 Read Quote
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. Jacques Barzun Read Quote
I have always been – I think any student of history almost inevitably is – a cheerful pessimist. Jacques Barzun Read Quote
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one’s share in the world’s work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. Jacques Barzun Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Jacques Barzun Read Quote
Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. Jacques Barzun Read Quote
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 Read Quote
