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 Copy Share Image
As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidised commission of engineers and physicists… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as,… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Poetry, mythology, and religion represent the world as man would like to have it, while science represents the world as he gradually… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds.… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy,… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
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… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidised commission of engineers and physicists could create… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share
