Birth: August 2, 1865 Death: July 15, 1933
A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its pract….
If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying..
The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy..
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication..
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 underdo….
The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality..
It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection..
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution..
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama..
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the mass….
To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than ….
Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn..
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theolog….
Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilous….
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 indi….
If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism..
Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledg….
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity….
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope..
Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism..
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 call….