Top 28 Quotes by 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.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

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

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

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.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

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.