Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.
Joseph Wood KrutchMan is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?
Joseph Wood KrutchA humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour.
Joseph Wood KrutchWhen a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
Joseph Wood KrutchIs 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 Krutch