Jacques Martin Barzun 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 s"
"In producers, loafing is productive and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than"
"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition."
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball."
"The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind."
"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings be"
