Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch

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.

Animal

Humanity

Men

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.

Animal

Missing

Rocks

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

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Ethics

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.

Men

Science

Technology

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

Eternity

Passing Away

Time

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.

Good Life

Loyalty

Passion

Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.

Gratitude

Kind

Vices

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Gratitude

Happiness

Laughter

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?

Animal

Compassion

Life

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

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Nature

People

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Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch

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.

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.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

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.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

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.

Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

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?

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

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