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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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Joseph Wood Krutch
Age: 76 †
Born: 1893
Born: November 25
Died: 1970
Died: May 22
Biographer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Naturalist
Theatre Critic
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Everywhere
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Men

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Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question Why?
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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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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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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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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 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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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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.
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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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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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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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