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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.
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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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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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 wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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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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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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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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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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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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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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There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.
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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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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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