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"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."
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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
"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."
"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy."
"I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one."
"It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world."
"There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous."
"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."
"I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me."
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"Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution."
"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."
"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."
"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment."
"The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope."
"The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."
"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."
"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."
"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards."
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