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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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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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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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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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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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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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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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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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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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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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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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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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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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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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 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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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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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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
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