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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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Man would not succumb so easily to flattery if he did not begin by flattering himself.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
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If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.
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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.
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The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
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When we consider carefully what many of our so-called humanists stand for, we find that they are not humanists but humanitarians.
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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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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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When the element of conversion with reference to a standard is eliminated from life, what remains is the irresponsible quest for thrills.
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
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True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard.
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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.
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To glorify man in his natural and unmodified self is no less surely, even if less obviously, idolatry than actually to bow down before a graven image.
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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.
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A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
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The true dualism I take to be the contrast between two wills, one of which is felt as vital impulse (élan vital) and the other as vital control (frein vital).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Our most urgent problem just now is how to preserve in a positive and critical form the soul of truth in the two great traditions, classical and Christian, that are crumbling as mere dogma.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Irving Babbitt
Born:
August 2, 1865
Died:
July 15, 1933
(aged 67)
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