Irving Babbitt Quotes

• Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

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  Looks, Becoming, Chance

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.113, Transaction Publishers

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• Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

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  Democracy, Quests, May

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.138, Transaction Publishers

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• For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

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  Love, Peace, Imperialism

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• Una persona que tiene simpatía por la humanidad en el bulto, fe en su progreso futuro y deseo de servir a la gran causa de este progreso, debe ser llamado no un humanista, sino un humanitario, y su credo puede ser designado como humanitarismo.

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  Humanity, Desire, Progress

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.

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  Mind, Judgment, Closing

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• If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying.

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  Achievement, Impressive, Satisfying

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.136, Transaction Publishers

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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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  America, Confusion, Suffering

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.136, Transaction Publishers

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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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  Men, Self, Standards Set

  Irving Babbitt, George Andrew Panichas (1981). “Irving Babbitt, representative writings”, Univ of Nebraska Pr

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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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  Practice, Feelings, Democracy

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.154, Transaction Publishers

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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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  Lust, Three, Christianity

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• Dile, por el contrario, que necesita, en interés de su propia felicidad, caminar por la senda de la humildad y el autocontrol, y se mostrará indiferente, o incluso activamente resentido.

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  Humility, Self, Needs

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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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  World, Affair, Humanitarian

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• Un estadounidense de hoy en día leyendo su periódico dominical en un estado de perezoso colapso es uno de los símbolos más perfectos del triunfo de la cantidad sobre la calidad que el mundo ha visto hasta ahora.

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  Reading, Sunday, Perfect

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.112, Transaction Publishers

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• La revolución industrial ha tendido a producir en todas partes grandes masas urbanas que parecen cada vez más descuidadas de las normas éticas.

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  Ethical Standards, Revolution, Urban

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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• A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

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  Movement, Sides, Sentimental

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

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  Thinking, Care, Take Care

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

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  Expansion, Degrees, Renaissance

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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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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  Democracy, Quality, Today

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.110, Transaction Publishers

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• Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

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  Military, Men, Kind Man

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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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  Light, People, Standards

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.150, Transaction Publishers

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• El elemento vinculante por excelencia en el orden medieval era la subordinación a la voluntad divina y a sus representantes terrenales, especialmente el papa.

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  Order, Elements, Divine Will

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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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  Romantic Love, Leader, Conventions

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

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  Sentimental, Ethics, Virtue

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• Si un hombre se guiara simplemente por lo que ve, podría verse tentado a afirmar que la esencia de la democracia es el melodrama.

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  Men, Essence, Democracy

  Irving Babbitt (2005). “On Literature, Cultures, and Religion”, p.112, Transaction Publishers

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• To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

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  Failure, Important, Achieve

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