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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
Men
Everywhere
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When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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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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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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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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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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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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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
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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 most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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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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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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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