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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.”

51. “Science has always promised two things not necessarily related; an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.”

52. “Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.”

53. “The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “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.”

54. “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.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.”

55. “Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.”

56. “Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “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.”

57. “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.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “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.”

58. “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.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.”

59. “If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?”

60. “How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “Not to have known – as most men have not – either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one’s self. Not to have known one’s self is to have known no one.”

61. “Not to have known – as most men have not – either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one’s self. Not to have known one’s self is to have known no one.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.”

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

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.”

63. “In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.”

64. “The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.”

65. “Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have once more above its head the inverted bowl beyond which may lie whatever paradise its desires may create.”

66. “The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have once more above its head the inverted bowl beyond which may lie whatever paradise its desires may create.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.”

67. “In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “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.”

68. “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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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “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.”

69. “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.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.”

70. “We must not judge the society of the future by considering whether or not we should like to live in it; the question is whether those who have grown up in it will be happier than those who have grown up in our society or those of the past.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one’s country, to society, and to civilization itself.”

71. “To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one’s country, to society, and to civilization itself.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “Up up and quit your books’ is not an adjuration commonly thought advisable in universities but there are occasions – as for instance, when studying Wordsworth when it might be advisable.”

72. “Up up and quit your books’ is not an adjuration commonly thought advisable in universities but there are occasions – as for instance, when studying Wordsworth when it might be advisable.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.”

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

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.”

74. “Long before I ever saw the desert I was aware of the mystical overtones which the observation of nature made audible to me. But I have never been more frequently or more vividly aware of them than in connection with the desert phenomena.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.”

75. “The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.”

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Joseph Wood Krutch Quote: “When a man despoils a work of art we call him a vandal, when he despoils a work of nature we call him a developer.”

76. “When a man despoils a work of art we call him a vandal, when he despoils a work of nature we call him a developer.”

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