Quote by Irving Babbitt
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and se

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. – Irving Babbitt

Other quotes by Irving Babbitt

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

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Faith
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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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Happiness
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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration. – Irving Babbitt

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Romantic
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Sympathy
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The only cure for grief is action. – George Henry Lewes

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Sympathy

The people that I care about are the people out there on the street. I can identify with them. – Princess of Wales Diana

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Sympathy

Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. – Xenophon

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Sympathy

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one. – Aneurin Bevan

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Sympathy

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There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. – Frederika Bremer

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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty. – Joseph Addison

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