The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
Interpretation
Intellectuals often feel distressed or challenged by the ideas and works of their peers.
This quote reflects the idea that those who engage deeply with intellectual pursuits may find themselves in a state of turmoil due to the works of their contemporaries. The critique, aspirations, and standards set by fellow intellectuals can lead to feelings of inadequacy, competition, and restlessness, as they constantly measure themselves against the achievements and thoughts of others.
In practice
In a discussion about the pressures of academia, one might say, 'Remember, as Jacques Barzun pointed out, the intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.'
Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.
Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where human judgment abdicates. The smoothest machine-made product of the age is the organization man, for even the best organizing principle tends to corrupt, and the mechanical principle corrupts absolutely.
In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
I can only think that the book is read because it deals with the difficulties of schooling, which do not change. Please note: the difficulties, not the problems. Problems are solved or disappear with the revolving times. Difficulities remain. It will always be difficult to teach well, to learn accurately; to read, write, and count readily and competently; to acquire a sense of history and start one's education or anothers.
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.
The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect
You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.
Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do - and that women who want for a housemaid to do this or the charwomen to do that, when the patient is suffering, have not the making of a nurse in them.
Hurry is the weakness of fools.
For the warrior, there is no "better" or "worse"; everyone has the necessary gifts for his particular path.
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.