Quotes of Joseph Wood Krutch

“ Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. ”

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Gratitude

“ Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. ”

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Nature

“ Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. ”

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Cat

“ 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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Cat

“ Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. ”

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Rule

“ 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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Business

“ A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour. ”

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Bearing

“ What man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. ”

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Battle

“ Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. ”

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Beast

“ Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is. ”

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Burgeon

“ The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. ”

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Blame

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

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Bird

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

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Bird

“ 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. ”

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Ceremonial

“ Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. ”

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Convention

“ What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. ”

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Contention

“ Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. ”

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Custom

“ 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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Communication

“ As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines. ”

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Contrivance

“ Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. ”

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Credible

“ 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. ”

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Ceremony

“ Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. ”

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Cultivation

“ Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. ”

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Confidence

“ Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is. ”

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Consciousness

“ Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. ”

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Cultivation

“ Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. ”

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Confidence

“ Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. ”

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Cat

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

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Cat

“ 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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Commission

“ What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. ”

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“ Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. ”

“ Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. ”

“ Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. ”

“ 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. ”

“ A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour. ”

“ What man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. ”

“ Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. ”

“ Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is. ”

“ The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. ”

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

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

“ 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. ”

“ Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. ”

“ What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. ”

“ Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. ”

“ 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. ”

“ As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines. ”

“ Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. ”

“ Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. ”

“ Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is. ”

“ Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. ”

“ Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. ”

“ Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. ”

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

“ 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. ”

“ What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. ”