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One Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch
- Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the…
- Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.
- To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat…
- The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
- The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.
- Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not…
- There is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned.
- The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier…
- To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.
- Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it…
- When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god…
- 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…
- Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
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