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Irving Babbitt was an American scholar and critic known for his profound insights into literature and culture. His works spanned various fields including literary criticism, moral philosophy, and literary theory.

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Famous Irving Babbitt Quotes

“The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.”

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Book:On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

Source: On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

“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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Book:Irving Babbitt, representative writings

Source: Irving Babbitt, representative writings

“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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Book:On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

Source: On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

“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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Book:On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

Source: On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

“If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.”

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Book:On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

Source: On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

About the Author

Born: August 2, 1865
Died: July 15, 1933
Known for: Author
Quotes: 36

Books & Sources

On Literature, Cultures, and ReligionRelated source material

Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanitiesRelated source material

Irving Babbitt, representative writingsRelated source material

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