"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
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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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"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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"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."
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"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."
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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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