Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

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

Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.

When a man wantonly destroys a work of man we call him a vandal when a man destroys one of the work...

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I h...

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

Though many have tried no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science which can...

True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal persona...

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole ...

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either...

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy so...

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of p...

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is...

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

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I hav...