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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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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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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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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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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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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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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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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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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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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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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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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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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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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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