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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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Joseph Wood Krutch
Age: 76 †
Born: 1893
Born: November 25
Died: 1970
Died: May 22
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Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
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Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.
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Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.
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Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.
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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.
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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.
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Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.
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