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"But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy."
"Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help."
"Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them."
"A creative element is surely present in all great systems, and it does not seem possible that all sympathy or fundamental attitudes of will can be entirely eliminated from any human philosophy."
"Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for."
"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."
"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."
Explore more quotes by Irving Babbitt
"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."
"The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope."
"If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama."
"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."
"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."
"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication."
"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."
"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."
"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."
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