I have always been — I think any student of history almost inevitably is — a cheerful pessimist.


Quoted in "Jacques Barzun '27: Columbia Avatar" by Thomas Vinciguerra, Columbia Today (January 2006)

Jacques Barzun Quotes

I have always been — I think any student of history almost inevitably is — a cheerful pessimist.

I have always been — I think any student of history almost inevitably is — a cheerful pessimist.

I have always been — I think any student of history almost inevitably is — a cheerful pessimist.

I have always been — I think any student of history almost inevitably is — a cheerful pessimist.