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

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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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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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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It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy. – Alfred E. Smith

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Sympathy

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force. – Lech Walesa

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Sympathy

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else. – Brownie McGhee

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Sympathy

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink. – W. H. Davies

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Sympathy

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