Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

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.

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

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics chemistry or animal behaviour.

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 forms and ceremonies.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

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

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

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