Men 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

Joseph Wood Krutch

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

Joseph Wood Krutch

In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.

Confusion

Men

Thoughtful

Joseph Wood Krutch

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question “Why?

Enough

Long

Men

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.

Ill Will

Men

War

Joseph Wood Krutch

The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.

Flower

Men

Nature

Joseph Wood Krutch

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

Men

Paradox

Society

Joseph Wood Krutch

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

Dangerous

Men

Susceptible

Joseph Wood Krutch

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.

Doubt

Men

World

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Men Quotes by 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.

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.

In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.

Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question “Why?

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.

The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.

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

There is no such thing as a dangerous woman; there are only susceptible men.

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.

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