“The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have once more above its head the inverted bowl beyond which may lie whatever paradise its desires may create.” MindMayFeelingsSpiritLyingDesireSpaceEmotionEmotionalColdParadiseLeapFrightenedBowlsImmensityElationInverted Book:A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism Source: A Krutch Omnibus: Forty Years of Social and Literary Criticism
“Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.” MayArtScienceLogicMetaphysicsReason And Logic Book:The Modern Temper Source: The Modern Temper
“True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.” MayCharacterGreatnessDramaDignityTragedyDefinedDramaticPrincipal Author:Joseph Wood Krutch
“To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.” FirstsMaySelfCountryDutyIntegrityCivilizationRighteous Book:If You Don't Mind My Saying So ...: Essays on Man and Nature Source: If You Don't Mind My Saying So ...: Essays on Man and Nature
