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.
Jacques BarzunThe truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.
Jacques BarzunArt distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
Jacques BarzunIf civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Jacques BarzunMaxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be unsnarled; they can only be cut, which is what happens when an air raid occurs, with a silencing fortissimo like the finale of a Beethoven symphony.
Jacques Barzun