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Irving Babbitt

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
— Irving Babbitt evolution
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 faith
The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
— Irving Babbitt mind
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 science
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
— Irving Babbitt peace
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 happiness
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 knowledge
A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.
— Irving Babbitt spiritual
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
— Irving Babbitt knowledge
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
— Irving Babbitt reading
If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.
— Irving Babbitt criticism
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 faith
Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
— Irving Babbitt time
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
— Irving Babbitt time
Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
— Irving Babbitt sad
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
— Irving Babbitt happiness
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
— Irving Babbitt man
Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
— Irving Babbitt confusion
A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
— Irving Babbitt self
Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
— Irving Babbitt chance
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 society
If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
— Irving Babbitt men
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
— Irving Babbitt evolution
Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
— Irving Babbitt man
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
— Irving Babbitt time

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