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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
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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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Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually comes to discover it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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 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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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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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.
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Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
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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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