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It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.
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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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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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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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.
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It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
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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.
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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.
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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.
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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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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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