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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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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.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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 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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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 most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
Joseph Wood Krutch
August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
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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 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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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
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.
Joseph Wood Krutch
