Jacques Barzun Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

  Jacques Barzun

  Music, Purpose, Emotion

  Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.61, University of Chicago Press

• 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

  Strong, Energy, Emotion

  1964 Science, The Glorious Entertainment.

• It 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

  Art, Strong, Philosophy

  1964 Science, The Glorious Entertainment.

• On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as a tribute to their power to influence emotion and possibly conduct. And reflecting further on what some critics do today, one sees that a good many have merely shifted the ground of their moralism, transferring their impulse of righteousness to politics and social issues.

  Jacques Barzun

  Art, Reflection, Issues

  Jacques Barzun (1989). “The Culture We Deserve”, p.69, Wesleyan University Press

• In ordinary speech the words perception and sensation tend to be used interchangeably, but the psychologist distinguishes. Sensations are the items of consciousness--a color, a weight, a texture--that we tend to think of as simple and single. Perceptions are complex affairs that embrace sensation together with other, associated or revived contents of the mind, including emotions.

  Jacques Barzun

  Simple, Thinking, Color

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