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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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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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Faith
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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

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Failure
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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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Environment
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Knowledge

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it. – Proverb

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Knowledge

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. – Walter Lippmann

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Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns. – Albert Szent-Györgyi, "Teaching and Expanding Knowledge," Science,

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