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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

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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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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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Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself. – Irving Babbitt

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Other Quotes from
Sympathy
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Its hard for me to think of others because Im not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. – Alan Hovhaness

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Sympathy

One often calms ones grief by recounting it. – Pierre Corneille

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Sympathy

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion. – Frances E. Willard

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Sympathy

Im in total sympathy with Dick Smiths sentiments I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name. – Hugh Mackay

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Sympathy

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So bleak is the picture… that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. – Philip Shabecoff, New York Times Magazine, 4 June 1978

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