I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.

[...]Non vi sono né felicità né infelicità assolute in questo mondo, vi è soltanto il paragone tra una condizione e l'altra, ecco tutto. Solo colui che ha provato l'estremo dolore è atto a gustare la più grande felicità.

Silence. Give me control. Give me calm. Give me restraint. Flash.

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.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

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

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.

Jacques Barzun

Quotes by Jacques Barzun

Written By Jacques Barzun

Written By Jacques Barzun

Written By Jacques Barzun

Written By Jacques Barzun

Written By Jacques Barzun

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