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. – Irving Babbitt
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. – 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
Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. – Irving Babbitt
Im definitely doing better. I never realized that I would get the support that Ive gotten from everybody – from my fans, to people that Ive idolized my whole life. So its overwhelming, its amazing and I believe that everything happens for a reason so Im in a really good place right now. – Pia Toscano