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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
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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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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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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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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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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.
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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 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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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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