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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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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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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
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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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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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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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The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
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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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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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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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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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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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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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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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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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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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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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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