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Explore our hand-picked selection of 87 inspiring quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch.

About Joseph Wood Krutch

  • Born: November 25, 1893
  • Died: May 22, 1970
  • Occupation: Writer
    • Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.
    Art Real Literature
    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.
    Atheism Facts Can Do
    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 our power actually to possess is limited.
    Law Fundamentals Human Nature
    In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in march a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of nature is planning them too.
    New Year Heart Years
    A tragic writer does not have to believe in god, but he must believe in man.
    Believe Men Tragedy
    The typical american believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.
    Believe Soul Typical
    The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.
    Men Society Paradox
    The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. both could.
    Long Bird Cockroaches
    Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
    Ethics Bases Customs
    Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.
    Time Passing Away Eternity
    And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part.
    Animal Rocks Missing
    Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. but a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.
    War Men Ill Will
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