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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.
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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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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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Joseph Wood Krutch
As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
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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?
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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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The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
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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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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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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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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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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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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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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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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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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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.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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.
Joseph Wood Krutch
