Irving Babbitt

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress…

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of…

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy…

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of…

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they…

The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and…

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection…

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness…

Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in…

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the…

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the…

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in…

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is…