Jacques Barzun Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

  Jacques Barzun

  Art, Philosophy, Real

  The House of Intellect ch. 6 (1959)

• History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.

  Jacques Barzun

  Rivers, History, Water

  "Clio and the Doctors" by Jacques Barzun, ("History as Counter-Method and Anti-Abstraction"), 1974.

• [T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.

  Jacques Barzun

  Hands, History, Triumph

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