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

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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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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Sympathy
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California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance? – Denis Kearney

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Sympathy

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

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Sympathy

Sympathetic people often dont communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. – George Eliot

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Sympathy

If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, its much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems. – George Soros

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Sympathy

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