Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. Jacques Barzun More Quotes by Jacques Barzun More Quotes From Jacques Barzun The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers Jacques Barzun crime may fiction An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. Jacques Barzun artist may reality 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 team baseball heart You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same. Jacques Barzun steps rivers 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 silence education men Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole. Jacques Barzun feelings spring ideas It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and law, education and government, art and social philosophy, religion and the life of the affections. Yet science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history. Jacques Barzun strong philosophy art Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn. Jacques Barzun unique writing art Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way Jacques Barzun names opposites writing no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it. Jacques Barzun important intellectual reading Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots. Jacques Barzun robots expression character 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 shadow creative west 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 fighting naps sleep I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. Jacques Barzun cheerful students thinking Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the lives and reputations? I am as far as anyone can be from denying the power of ideas in history, but the suggestion that a philosophy (as Relativism is often called) has perverted millions and debased daily life is on the face of it absurd. No idea working alone has ever demoralized society, and there have been plenty of ideas simpler and more exciting than Relativism. Jacques Barzun working-alone philosophy ideas Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation. Jacques Barzun fancy expression looks Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where human judgment abdicates. The smoothest machine-made product of the age is the organization man, for even the best organizing principle tends to corrupt, and the mechanical principle corrupts absolutely. Jacques Barzun organization giving men To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence. Jacques Barzun hate self past The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far. Jacques Barzun necks fables dog 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 space europe men
