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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.
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 such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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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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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
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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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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.
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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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