Irving Babbitt Quotes

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

Irving Babbitt

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Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.

Hamza Yusuf
- God
- Faith
- Religion
Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.

Sam Harris
- Thinking
- Long
- Day
In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

Gary Miller Bad Brains
- America
- Health
- Care
Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

P. J. O'Rourke
- World
- Care
- Study
You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.

Laura Slade Wiggins
- Different
- Care
- Body
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

Ramakrishna
- Energy
- Faith
- Desire