Top 25 Quotes by Joseph Wood Krutch of 87 - Page 4

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

Art, Real, Literature

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

Believe, Men, Tragedy

1929 The Modern Temper,'The Tragic Fallacy'.

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

Atheism, Facts, Can Do

Joseph Wood Krutch (1970). “A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism”

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

Joseph Wood Krutch

Time, Passing Away, Eternity

Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Spring, Winter, Ice

When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Men, Doubt, World

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Summer, August, Months

Joseph Wood Krutch (1995). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

Man is, perhaps, no more prone to war than he used to be and no more inclined to commit other evil deeds. But a given amount of ill will or folly will go further than it used to.

Joseph Wood Krutch

War, Men, Ill Will