"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."
― Irving Babbitt
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Sympathy
― Irving Babbitt
More From 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."
- "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."
- "The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy."
More In Sympathy
- "The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party."― Goldwin Smith
- "Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can’t identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn’t yet historical."― Leslie Fiedler
- "My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else."― Brownie McGhee