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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
There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
The grand paradox of our society is this:we magnify man's right but we minimize his capacities. — Joseph Wood Krutch
Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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
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
Love is ... not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
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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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What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.
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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
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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.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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
Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
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Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.
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Nature, in her blind thirst for life has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature.
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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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
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
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
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
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
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
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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.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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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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
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
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
The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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
In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
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The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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
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
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
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In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.
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