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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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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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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 human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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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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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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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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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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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 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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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 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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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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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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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