Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. Joseph Wood Krutch More Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch More Quotes From Joseph Wood Krutch 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. Joseph Wood Krutch communicationbookmoving 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. Joseph Wood Krutch lonelynatureadventure Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. Joseph Wood Krutch philosophicalplaycivilization Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty. Joseph Wood Krutch demandauthorityway As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines. Joseph Wood Krutch machinesmen 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. Joseph Wood Krutch catpetinsomnia The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated. Joseph Wood Krutch natureselfscience Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity. Joseph Wood Krutch persistentopportunitylife There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men. Joseph Wood Krutch susceptibledangerousmen It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not be able to live on it for long. Joseph Wood Krutch ablelongfacts An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small. Joseph Wood Krutch scarcitynaturemen 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. Joseph Wood Krutch studysometimeschildren 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. Joseph Wood Krutch our-societyjudgingpast In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion. Joseph Wood Krutch delusionrunninglong The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents. Joseph Wood Krutch natureflowermen Being the inventor of sex would seem to be a sufficient distinction for a creature just barely large enough to be seen by the naked eye. Joseph Wood Krutch eyesciencesex Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination. Joseph Wood Krutch imaginationlovefacts Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa. Joseph Wood Krutch gratitudekindvices The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many. Joseph Wood Krutch appreciatemindfirsts 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. Joseph Wood Krutch selfintegritycountry
