Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the elaborate flowers which man's cultivation has had nothing to do with, it does not seem fantastic to me. We put survival first. But when we have a margin of safety left over, we expend it in the search for the beautiful. Who can say that Nature does not do the same?
Joseph Wood KrutchIf we are deprived of hope as well as fear, we are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring or simply for waiting.
Joseph Wood KrutchEvery time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.
Joseph Wood KrutchAs machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.
Joseph Wood Krutch