"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."

-- Irving Babbitt

#Sympathy Quotes #Balance Quotes #Humanist Quotes

“The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.”
“Belief, confidence in yourself.. the worldâ€™s your playground. Limitless. My question is... will you be remembered?”
“I was a huge 'Star Trek' fan. I loved the 'Twilight Zone' growing up. In the future, I hope to create some thoughtful, sci-fi drama.”
“I'm not surprised people are being slaughtered, people are being martyred. Our hope isn't in this world as believers, it's in the eternity. To be absent of body is to be present with the Lord, so they are dying for something that is real and will last forever.”
“For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.”
“Ridicule is manâ€™s most potent weapon.”
“My only ambition is to be true every moment I am living.”
“No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven.”

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