Jacques Barzun Quotes

"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 Barzun in Baseball quotes.

"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind."
-Jacques Barzun

"A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth."
-Jacques Barzun in Conservatism quotes.

"Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made."
-Jacques Barzun in Self-control quotes.

"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 in Life quotes.

"The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment."
-Jacques Barzun

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

"Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole."
-Jacques Barzun in Idealism quotes.