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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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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
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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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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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To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.
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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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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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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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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.
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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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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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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.
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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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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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