"Though many have tried, no one has ever……" — 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 decide what it ought to do."
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81 Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch
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Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself…
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Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face…
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Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to…
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
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The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened…
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any,…
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Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that…
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Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing…
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Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or…
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More Cannot Decide Quotes
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There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot…
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By thinking you cannot decide. It is not a question of deciding as a logical conclusion, it is a question…
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I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be…
— Bertrand Russell
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Now, my novel begins. No, now I begin my novel—and yet I cannot decide whether to call myself I or…
— Elizabeth Hardwick
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In the coming elections if you cannot decide whom to select, use the vote to reject.
— Kisan Baburao Hazare
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The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the…
— Alice Morse Earle
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When I look at what the world does and where people nowadays believe they can find happiness, I am not…
— Zhuangzi
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Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there…
— Michel de Montaigne
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It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it…
— Thomas Sowell
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Whether there is such a thing as Reality, of which the various levels are only partial aspects, or whether there…
— Italo Calvino
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No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.
— Robin Hobb
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