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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity – the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power. – Irving Babbitt

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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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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism. – Irving Babbitt

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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. – Irving Babbitt

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The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. – Miguel de Cervantes

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All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion and I felt something like indecision. – Maria Monk

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Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal. – Ali ibn Abi Talib

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There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. – Albert Einstein

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Women would rather be right than reasonable. – Ogden Nash

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We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves. – Errico Malatesta, l’Agitazione, 1897 June 18th

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My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem. – Gwyneth Paltrow

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To be full of things is to be empty of God. To be empty of things is to be full of God. – Meister Eckhart

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