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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.

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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Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
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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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In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.
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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.
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To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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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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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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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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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 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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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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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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