What did Jacques Barzun mean by: Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight. Jacques Barzun Copy
If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jacques Barzun, Progress, Renewal, Resilience, 0 Jacques Barzun
Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jacques Barzun, Self-pity, Worship, Youth, 0 Jacques Barzun
You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jacques Barzun, Change, Identity, Perception, 0 Jacques Barzun
The test and the use of man’s education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jacques Barzun, Education, Mind, Pleasure, 0 Jacques Barzun
Finding oneself was a misnomer; a self is not found but made. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jacques Barzun, Creation, Identity, Selfhood, 0 Jacques Barzun
The mind tends to run along the groove of one’s intention and overlook the actual expression. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jacques Barzun, Focus., Intention, Perception, 0 Jacques Barzun
I have always been – I think any student of history almost inevitably is – a cheerful pessimist. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jacques Barzun, Cheerful, History, 0 Jacques Barzun
I’ll read, and then I’ll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don’t fight it. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Jacques Barzun, Reading, Rest, Surrender, 0 Jacques Barzun
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. François Rabelais Author · France
Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The highest art of the chess player lies in not allowing your opponent to show you what he can do. Garry Kasparov Chessplayer · Russia
Chess is one of the few arts where composition takes place simultaneously with performance Garry Kasparov Chessplayer · Russia
