The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. – Irving Babbitt
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
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
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. – Irving Babbitt