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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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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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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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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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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
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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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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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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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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 wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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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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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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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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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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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