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Human Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch
- The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
- Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too…
- The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when…
- To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind…
- Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.
- The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
- There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
- It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that…
- 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…
- Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.
- Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time…
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
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