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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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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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Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.
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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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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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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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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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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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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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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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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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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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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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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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