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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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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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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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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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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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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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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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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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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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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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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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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.
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