Best Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch (Top 10)
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Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
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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 insomnia.
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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 one thing only.
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Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
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If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
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Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
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If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
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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 we call him a sportsman.
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More Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes
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Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
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The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
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The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.
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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 being.
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As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
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Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
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Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
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A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.
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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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