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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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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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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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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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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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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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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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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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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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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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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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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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