The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.
Jacques BarzunTag: literary
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
Jacques BarzunTeaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
Jacques BarzunTag: education school teaching tradition
You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.
Jacques BarzunPolitical correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.
Jacques BarzunLet 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 Barzunno subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.
Jacques BarzunConvince 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 BarzunTag: writing writer-s-block
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 BarzunTag: culture
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.
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