Herbert Read Quotes

I know of no better name than Anarchism. - Herbert Read

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind. - Herbert Read

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art is pattern informed by sensibility. - Sir Herbert Read

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. - Herbert Read

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