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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.
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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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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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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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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If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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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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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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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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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 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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Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye.
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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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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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There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.
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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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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.
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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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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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