- Change theme
Quotes by Irving Babbitt
- Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
- The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
- The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
- The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
- To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.
1