Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Joseph Wood Krutch
When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal when a man destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Joseph Wood Krutch
When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal when a man destroys one of the works of God we call him a sportsman.
Joseph Wood Krutch
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics chemistry or animal behaviour.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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 forms and ceremonies.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Civilizations die from philosophical calm irony and the sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Joseph Wood Krutch
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Joseph Wood Krutch
True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who has suffered from insomnia.
Joseph Wood Krutch