From Dawn to Decadence 500 Years of Western Cultural Life,
More Quotes from Jacques Barzun:
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.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 h
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
The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.
Jacques Barzun
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
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
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Life QuotesHow do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!
Oriana Fallaci
Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
Jerry Garcia
Speak up! We live in a democracy. We all need to make sure our voices are heard and our opinions are known.
Bill Lipinski