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

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Cats are rather delicate creatures, and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who has suffered from insomnia.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Cats are rather delicate creatures, and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

— Joseph Wood Krutch