Quote by 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 humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. – Irving Babbitt

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Science
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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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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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Knowledge
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the childs delight added to your own – this is happiness. – J. B. Priestley

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Happiness

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. – Thornton Wilder

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Happiness

We pray that every field of science may contribute in bringing happiness – not disaster – to human beings. – Kenichi Fukui

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Happiness

Ive run into certain geniuses of individualism – they are very few and far between – who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that. – David Duchovny

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Happiness

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Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. – François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678

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Competition among insurers would bring down the cost of health care insurance, just as it brings down the cost of car or homeowners insurance. – Andrew P. Harris

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car

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. New Testament – Bible

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Beauty is not caused. It is. – Emily Dickinson

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