List of Irving Babbitt Quotes

If We Are To Have Such A Discipline We Must Have Standards, And To Get Our Standards Under Existing Conditions We Must Have Criticism.

Democracy Is Now Going Forth On A Crusade Against Imperialism.

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.

The True Humanist Maintains A Just Balance Between Sympathy And Selection.

The Humanities Need To Be Defended Today Against The Encroachments Of Physical Science, As They Once Needed To Be Against The Encroachment Of Theology.

The Papacy Again, Representing The Traditional Unity Of European Civilization, Has Also Shown Itself Unable To Limit Effectively The Push Of Nationalism.

Since Every Man Desires Happiness, It Is Evidently No Small Matter Whether He Conceives Of Happiness In Terms Of Work Or Of Enjoyment.

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.

Robespierre, However, Was Not The Type Of Leader Finally Destined To Emerge From The Revolution.

Very Few Of The Early Italian Humanists Were Really Humane.

Act Strenuously, Would Appear To Be Our Faith, And Right Thinking Will Take Care Of Itself.