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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
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When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
Joseph Wood Krutch
As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
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The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
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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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Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.
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Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question Why?
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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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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch
When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.
Joseph Wood Krutch
The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.
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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.
Joseph Wood Krutch
The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
Joseph Wood Krutch
If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.
Joseph Wood Krutch
The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
Joseph Wood Krutch
In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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