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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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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 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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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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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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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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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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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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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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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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 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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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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