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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 40 quotes by Herbert Read Sir Herbert Edward Read, DSO, MC (/riːd/; 1893–1968) was an English anarchist, poet and literary critic, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education. Read was co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. He was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism. Read full biography of Herbert Read → ← Ctrl 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of... → 0 Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. 0 I know of no better name than Anarchism. 0 The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word. 0 I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. 0 If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. 0 The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. 0 The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. 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... → 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... → 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... → 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... → 0 There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to... → 0 ← Ctrl 1 2 3 4 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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