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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.
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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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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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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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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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.
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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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Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
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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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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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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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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 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 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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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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