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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?

Joseph Wood Krutch

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Joseph Wood Krutch
Age: 76 †
Born: 1893
Born: November 25
Died: 1970
Died: May 22
Biographer
Journalist
Literary Critic
Naturalist
Theatre Critic
Writer
Knoxville
Tennessee
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Asks
Enough
Long
Men
Falters
Life
Enable
Instinct
Mankind

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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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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man alone but of everything which shares with us the great adventure of being alive.
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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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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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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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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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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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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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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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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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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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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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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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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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