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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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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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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 cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.
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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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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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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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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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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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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman there are only susceptible men.
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.
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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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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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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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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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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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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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