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> [Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-wood-krutch/science-has-always-promised-two-things-not-necessarily-related-an/)

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## More by Joseph Wood Krutch

> [In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-wood-krutch/in-history-as-it-comes-to-be-written-there-is-usually-some-spirit-of/)

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> [Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-wood-krutch/both-the-cockroach-and-the-bird-would-get-along-very-well-without-us/)

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> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-wood-krutch/the-most-important-part-of-our-lives-our-sensations-emotions-desires/)

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> [If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-wood-krutch/if-we-are-deprived-of-hope-as-well-as-fear-we-are-compensated-by/)

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> [August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-wood-krutch/august-creates-as-she-slumbers-replete-and-satisfied/)

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> [Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-wood-krutch/cats-are-rather-delicate-creatures-and-they-are-subject-to-a-good/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-wood-krutch/the-snow-itself-is-lonely-or-if-you-prefer-self-sufficient-there-is/)

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> [Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidised commission of engineers and physicists could create…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-wood-krutch/electronic-calculators-can-solve-problems-which-the-man-who-made-them/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-wood-krutch/the-rare-moment-is-not-the-moment-when-there-is-something-worth/)

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> [Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-wood-krutch/cats-are-rather-delicate-creatures-and-they-are-subject-to-a-good-2/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-wood-krutch/we-have-not-merely-escaped-from-something-but-into-something-we-have/)

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> [How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-wood-krutch/how-anyone-can-profess-to-find-animal-life-interesting-and-yet-take/)

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> [True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-wood-krutch/true-tragedy-may-be-defined-as-a-dramatic-work-in-which-the-outward/)

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> [Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-wood-krutch/man-is-perhaps-no-more-prone-to-war-than-he-used-to-be-and-no-more/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-wood-krutch/few-people-have-ever-seriously-wished-to-be-exclusively-rational-the/)

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