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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
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Theatre Critic
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Knoxville
Tennessee
Everywhere
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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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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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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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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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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.
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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 we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
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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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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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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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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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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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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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