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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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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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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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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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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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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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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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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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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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.
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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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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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The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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