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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.
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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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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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.
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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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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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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 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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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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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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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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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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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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
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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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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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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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