Quote by Jacques Barzun
Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. - Jacques Bar

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. – Jacques Barzun

Other quotes by Jacques Barzun

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on ones share in the worlds work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done. – Jacques Barzun

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In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. – Jacques Barzun

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Principles
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We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. – Aldous Huxley

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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. – Aristotle

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The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. – Ernst Fischer

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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. – Antonin Artaud

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