Joseph Wood Krutch

Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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

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

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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

— Joseph Wood Krutch

February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or -…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold,…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal, when he wantonly destroys one of…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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

— Joseph Wood Krutch

And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks…

— 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…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet…

— 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…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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

— 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…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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

— Joseph Wood Krutch