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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.
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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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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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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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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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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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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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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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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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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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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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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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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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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 grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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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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