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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.
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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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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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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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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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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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 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 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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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 grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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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 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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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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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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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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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