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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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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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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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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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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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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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If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
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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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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
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If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.
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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
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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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.
Joseph Wood Krutch
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
Joseph Wood Krutch
