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Things Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch
- 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…
- We need some contact with the things we sprang from. We need nature at least as a part of the context of our lives. Without…
- In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
- Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long…
- Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things,…
- In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things…
- An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle