Jacques Barzun Quotes About Age

• We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

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  Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.164, University of Chicago Press

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• 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.

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• The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

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  Jacques Barzun (1961). “Classic, Romantic, and Modern”, p.14, University of Chicago Press

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• Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.

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  "Age of Reason". The New Yorker, (p. 103), October 22, 2007.

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

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  Jacques Barzun (1959). “The House of Intellect”

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• 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.

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