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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

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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Journalist
Literary Critic
Naturalist
Theatre Critic
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Knoxville
Tennessee
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Cynical

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The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.
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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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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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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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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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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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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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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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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If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.
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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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