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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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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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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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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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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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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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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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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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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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There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.
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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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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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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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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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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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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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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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