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 form and ceremonies.

Quote by Joseph Wood Krutch

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Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to...

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to...

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but...

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but...

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and...

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and...

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

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

A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other modern means of communication...

A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other modern means of communication...

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one...

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one...

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and...

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and...

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments,...

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments,...

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask...

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask...

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

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

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a...

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a...

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you...

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you...

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but...

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but...

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no...

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no...

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments,...

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments,...

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no...

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no...

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence

Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's...

Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's...

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because...

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because...