Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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• I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can't really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it's being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something's really good, I feel more affected by it.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fashion

• But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Live
  • Fact
  • Take

• I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Comedy

• I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Head

• There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Real
  • True
  • Hard

• Islam is a peaceful religion.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Religion
  • Islam
  • Peaceful

• Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intelligence and an invincible spirit of struggle.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • People
  • Hate
  • Best

• Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • God
  • War
  • Selfish

• Even working from nature you have to compose.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • Nature

• One of the limits of reality Presents itself in Oley when the hay, Baked through long days, is piled in mows. It is A land too ripe for enigmas, too serene.… Things stop in that direction and since they stop The direction stops and we accept what is As good. The utmost must be good and is…

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Good
  • Long
  • Reality

• You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • World
  • Believe
  • Respect

• God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.

  

  Elif Safak
  • God
  • Religious

• No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.

  

  Kevin Mitnick

• Lyme disease has become a fast epidemic worldwide. I am determined to help find a cure and figure out a way to share knowledge with the millions of people struggling with this debilitating disease.

  

  Yolanda Hadid
  • People
  • Help
  • Knowledge

• The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

  

  Joe Biden
  • People
  • American
  • Enemy

• We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.

  

  Adam Savage
  • Real
  • Science
  • Curiosity

• The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Moments

• Great horror movies are earned. 'Halloween' is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they're able to maintain getting there.

  

  John Carroll Lynch
  • Great
  • Violence
  • Picture

• J.J. did not always flee from men, but he has always loved solitude. He enjoyed himself with the friends he velieved he had, but he enjoyed himself still more alone. He valued their society, but he sometimes needed to withdraw, and he would perhaps have preferred to live always alone than always with them.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Live
  • Friends

• To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

  

  William James
  • Mean
  • Conscious
  • Awareness

• Maybe all that matters is that they love each other, still, the way people who have known each other will always love each other.

  

  Beth Kephart
  • People
  • Love
  • Way

• Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.

  

  Georges Bataille
  • Solitude
  • Sovereignty

• To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

  

  Joseph Wood Krutch
  • Solitude
  • Known
  • Oneself