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 BarzunIn any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
Jacques BarzunIdealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
Jacques BarzunIt 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