A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian.
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Chapter 3 “Free for All” (p. 31)Jack Vance
It is characteristic of the barbarian … to insist upon seeing a thing “as it is.” The desire testifies that he has nothing in himself with which to spiritualize it; the relation is one of thing to thing without the intercession of the imagination. Impatient of the veiling with which the man of higher type gives the world imaginative meaning, the barbarian and the Philistine, who is the barbarian living amid culture, demands the access of immediacy. Where the former wishes representation, the latter insists upon starkness of materiality, suspecting rightly that forms will mean restraint.
Richard Weaver
Civilization gives the barbarian or tribal man an eye for an ear and is now at odds with the electronic world.
Marshall McLuhan
The true barbarian is he who thinks every thing barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.
William Hazlitt
Progress usually comes from the barbarian, and there is nothing more stagnant than the philosophy of the philosophers and the theology of the theologians.
Miguel de Unamuno
Who but a stupid barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove and destroy that which he cannot make?
Anton Chekhov
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