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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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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.
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It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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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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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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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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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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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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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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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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It is sometimes easier to head an institute for the study of child guidance than it is to turn one brat into a decent human being.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.
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Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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