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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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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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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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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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