Quote by Irving Babbitt
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole questi

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. – Irving Babbitt

Other quotes by Irving Babbitt

The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality…. Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality. – Irving Babbitt

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Environment
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. – Irving Babbitt

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Happiness
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Faith
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To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you dont grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. – Alan Watts

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I had lost faith in biography. – A. N. Wilson

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Faith

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry. – Oliver Cromwell

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Faith enables persons to be persons because it lets God be God. – Carter Lindberg

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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate. – Walter Benjamin

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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. – Victor Hugo

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