Herbert Read Quotes

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

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past. - Herbert Read

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

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. - Herbert Read

Man is everywhere still in chains. Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. - Herbert Read

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

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

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

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence. - Herbert Read

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. - Herbert Read

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