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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.
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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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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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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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 wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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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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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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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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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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