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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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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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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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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 grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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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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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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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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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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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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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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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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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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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