Jacques Barzun Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.”

“The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.”

“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.”

“Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house.”

“In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.”

“The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”