A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0
The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality. Herbert Read English Poet More Herbert Read Quotes 0