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• The grand paradox of our society is this:
  we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Men, Society, Paradox

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• Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Art, Real, Literature

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• Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Time, Passing Away, Eternity

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Ethics, Bases, Customs

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1970). “A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism”

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• The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Long, Bird, Cockroaches

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1995). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

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• 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.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Atheism, Facts, Can Do

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1970). “A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism”

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• 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.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  War, Men, Ill Will

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• A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Believe, Men, Tragedy

  1929 The Modern Temper,'The Tragic Fallacy'.

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• The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Believe, Soul, Typical

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1964). “If You Don't Mind My Saying So ...: Essays on Man and Nature”

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• 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.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Animal, Rocks, Missing

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1971). “The Voice of the Desert, a Naturalist's Interpretation.”, William Morrow & Co

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• August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Summer, August, Months

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1995). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

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• When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Men, Doubt, World

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