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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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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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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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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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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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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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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 serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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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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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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Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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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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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 human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
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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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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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.
Joseph Wood Krutch
