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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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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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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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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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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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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 not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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