Affectionate Quote by Joseph Wood Krutch

“Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.”

Joseph Wood Krutch

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Affectionate Ceremony Desire Form Good life Grace Impossible Life Loyalty Passion People Rational Touched Traditional

More by Joseph Wood Krutch

In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of…

Joseph Wood Krutch

Image

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Image

The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy,…

Joseph Wood Krutch

Image

If we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply…

Joseph Wood Krutch

Image

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Image

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from…

Joseph Wood Krutch

Image

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…

Joseph Wood Krutch

Image

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidised commission of engineers and physicists could create…

Joseph Wood Krutch

Image

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Image

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Image

We have not merely escaped from something but into something... We have joined the greatest of all communities, which is not that of man…

Joseph Wood Krutch

Image

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass…

Joseph Wood Krutch

Image

Explore all 92 Joseph Wood Krutch quotes

More Affectionate quotes

“Emira realized that Briar probably didn't know how to say good-bye because she never had to do it before. But whether she said good-bye or not, Briar was about to become a person who existed without Emira. She'd go to sleepovers with girls she met at school, and she'd have certain words that she'd always forget how to spell. She'd…

Kiley Reid

We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all…

Dallas Willard

There never was a tonic that would cure more social ailments than a healthy, happy home. There never was a greater source of social…

Richard L. Evans

Image

I am convinced that human nature is basically affectionate and good. If our behavior follows our kind and loving nature, immense benefits will result, not only for ourselves, but also for the society to which we belong. I generally refer to this sort of love and affection as a universal religion. Everyone needs it, believers as much as non-believers. This…

Dalai Lama

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Image

One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half…

Willa Cather

Image

I can be affectionate about a lot of things without watching them.

Tom Stoppard

Image

If I do manage to come up with a scheme [to naming], however, I stick to it, which is why my cats are named after gods-Loki and Athena, who are, respectively, absolutely straightforward and affectionate, and dumber than dirt. I learned my lesson. I will name my next cat 'Satan' or 'Marduk' or something, thereby ensuring a kind, gentle beast…

Ursula Vernon

Josh Radnor is that rare thing: a writer-director who thinks like an actor but still knows how to create a comedy with shape and…

Owen Gleiberman

Image

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection

Jack Butler Yeats

Image

I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own…

Dalai Lama

Image

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity…

Gertrude Stein

Image

Browse all 219 Affectionate quotes

Affectionate Quote by Joseph Wood Krutch

Related quotes

More by Joseph Wood Krutch

More Affectionate quotes