Sir Herbert Edward Read Quotes

• A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

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

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• 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.

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

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

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• I know of no better name than Anarchism.

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• 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.

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• Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

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

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• In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

  Sir Herbert Edward Read

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• Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience – by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

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• Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

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• 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.

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• 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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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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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• Man is everywhere still in chains.

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Sir Herbert Edward Read (40)

Birth:	4th December, 1893
Death:	12th June, 1968
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Critic, Poet

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