Irving Babbitt Quotes & Sayings
34 most famous Irving Babbitt quotes and sayings (critic). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.”
“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.”
“For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.”
“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.”
“The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.”
“The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.”
“If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.”
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