97 Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch

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.

The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.

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.

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?

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.

The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

Not to have known - as most men have not - either the mountain or the desert is not to have known one's self. Not to have known one's self is to have known no one.