Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes
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A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.
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All the naturalistic religions are founded upon the assumption that nature - which "never did betray the heart that loved her" - is discoverable and ready to serve as an infallible guide.
[Religion]
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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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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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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]
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Cats are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
[Cats]
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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
[Cats]
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Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
[Civilization]
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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional forms and ceremonies.
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If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
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If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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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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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
[Decisions]
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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.
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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
[Security]
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
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There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.
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