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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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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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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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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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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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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To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.
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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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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
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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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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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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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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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When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.
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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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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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