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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane (Irving Babbitt Quotes)
The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism. (Irving Babbitt Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying (Irving Babbitt Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution (Irving Babbitt Quotes)
The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism (Irving Babbitt Quotes)
To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it (Irving Babbitt Quotes)
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective (Irving Babbitt Quotes)
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 Quotes)
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama (Irving Babbitt Quotes)
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 Quotes)
We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective. (Irving Babbitt Quotes)
Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism (Irving Babbitt Quotes)
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection (Irving Babbitt Quotes)
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope (Irving Babbitt Quotes)
Furthermore, america suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards (Irving Babbitt Quotes)
It is well to open one’s mind but only as a preliminary to closing it... for the supreme act of judgment and selection (Irving Babbitt Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself (Irving Babbitt Quotes)
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual (Irving Babbitt Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy (Irving Babbitt Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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