Herbert Read Quotes

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

Nature, Rather, State

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
Herbert Read

Power, Worth, Culture

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

Experience, Human, Progress

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.
Herbert Read

Wind, Artist, Bitter

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.
Herbert Read

Society, Single, Body

I know of no better name than Anarchism.
Herbert Read

Name, Anarchism

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

Success, War, Often

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
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Character, Achieve, Ideals

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.
Herbert Read

Art, Pattern, Informed

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
Herbert Read

Word, Meaning, Physical

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.
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Feeling, Cannot, Sense

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
Herbert Read

Power, Freedom, Equality

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.
Herbert Read

True, Desire, Might

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.
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Made, Means, Group

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
Herbert Read

Emotional, Past, Belong

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

Life, Forget, Find

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
Herbert Read

Religion, Call, Natural

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.
Herbert Read

Society, Imagine, Embody

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.
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Doubt, Stage, Mankind

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
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Life, Short, Individual

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.
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Social, Mankind, Evolution

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

Art, Society, Between

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.
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Religion, Society, After

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

Made, Place, Individual

Man is everywhere still in chains.
Herbert Read

Chains, Everywhere

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: 1893

Died: 1968

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