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Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: The grand paradox of our society is this:we magnify man's right but we minimize his capacities.

The grand paradox of our society is this:
we magnify man's right but we minimize his capacities.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: When a man despoils a work of art we call him a vandal, when he despoils a work of nature we call him a developer.

When a man despoils a work of art we call him a vandal, when he despoils a work of nature we call him a developer.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: 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.

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.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: Love is ... not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.

Love is ... not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: 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.

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.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: 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.

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.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.

The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.

The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: 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.

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.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: 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.

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.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: 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.

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.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question Why?

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 quotes: 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.

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.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: 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.

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.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.

Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.

Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

Joseph Wood Krutch quotes: 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.

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.