Irving Babbit Quotes

The humanities need to be defended to-day against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. - Irving Babbitt

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service. - Irving Babbitt

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. - Irving Babbitt

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality. - Irving Babbitt

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

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. - Irving Babbitt

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution. - Irving Babbitt

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