Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
Joseph Wood KrutchThe advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.
Joseph Wood KrutchAnxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.
Joseph Wood KrutchThe 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.
Joseph Wood Krutch