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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

Herbert Read

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

– Herbert Read

Herbert Read

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

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

Herbert Read

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

– Herbert Read

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

Herbert Read

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

– Herbert Read

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

Herbert Read

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

– Herbert Read

Herbert Read

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

– Herbert Read

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

Herbert Read

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

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